From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@au1.ibm.com>
To: linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH kernel] Revert "fbcon: use the cursor blink interval provided by vt"
Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2016 08:31:46 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1467189106.20278.223.camel@au1.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1467188352-5580-1-git-send-email-aik@ozlabs.ru>
On Wed, 2016-06-29 at 18:29 +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Wed, 2016-06-29 at 18:19 +1000, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote:
> > This is rather a bugreport than actual revert but nevertheless.
> >
> > Since 27a4c827c34a I started noticing weird traces and quite often
> > I could not boot my test machine which is POWER8 box with AST video
> > or ATI video (video adapter type does not matter much although
> > is happens lot more often with the OpenPOWER machine which got
> > AST).
> > The system console is IPMI, not the actual video adapter.
> >
> > I bisected it to this:
> >
> > https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/com
> > mi
> > t/?id'a4c827c34ac4256a190cc9d24607f953c1c459
> >
> > For some reason which I do not understand, in
> > cursor_timer_handler(),
> > ops->cur_blink_jiffies is zero. Why can this happen? What is a
> > proper
> > fix? Thanks.
>
> Rings a bell... do you have fbcon: initialize blink interval before
> calling fb_set_par (f235f664a8afabccf863a5dee4777d2d7b676fda) ?
Also check if you have:
> Cheers,
> Ben.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-06-29 8:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-06-29 8:19 [RFC PATCH kernel] Revert "fbcon: use the cursor blink interval provided by vt" Alexey Kardashevskiy
2016-06-29 8:31 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2016-06-29 8:31 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2016-06-29 12:00 ` Alexey Kardashevskiy
2016-06-29 13:55 ` Scot Doyle
2016-06-30 1:55 ` Alexey Kardashevskiy
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