From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: Dave Airlie <airlied@gmail.com>
Cc: Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher@amd.com>,
dri-devel <dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org>
Subject: Re: [Bug 206175] Fedora >= 5.4 kernels instantly freeze on boot without producing any display output
Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2020 13:40:41 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAHk-=wjDzHKweQfnMSyGdXo1ber-Hm-fYDC9TiE8xZZaEzZ8sw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <bug-206175-5873-dSmrOaqbiZ@https.bugzilla.kernel.org/>
Dave, Alex,
there's an odd bugreport on bugzilla, where Artem is seeing an odd
early-boot failure.
That one almost certainly has nothing to do with you guys, but see the
later odd (and apparently unrelated) report about some AMD graphics
firmware issue and a black screen.
Linus
On Tue, Jan 14, 2020 at 1:17 PM <bugzilla-daemon@bugzilla.kernel.org> wrote:
>
> https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=206175
>
> --- Comment #9 from Matt Yates (matt@fast-mail.org) ---
> My BIOS vendor is "Insyde Corp.". There is a TPM module. When I disabled it,
> it caused my EFI boot entry to disappear, so I couldn't test it.
>
> However, I think we may have two separate problems. I switched back from
> Fedora to Debian Testing, and the Debian installer upgraded the kernel from 5.3
> to 5.4 series prior to the first boot. The 5.4 kernel booted up on first boot.
> I could see boot messages scrolling, but the screen went to a black while
> trying to load lightdm because I did not have the "firmware-amd-graphics"
> package installed required for graphics. After installing the amd graphics
> package, the 5.4 kernel freezes as before (right at the start of the boot
> process). The 5.3 kernel boots as normal, and graphics work.
>
> The "firmware-amd-graphics" package (version 20190717-2) was the only thing I
> changed, so I guess the problem must be some sort of conflict with the amd
> graphics firmware and the 5.4 kernel.
>
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