On Wed, Jul 13, 2022 at 4:46 PM Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 7/13/22 12:36, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 12, 2022 at 10:07 PM Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>
> >> Same problems as every week.
> >>
> >> Building powerpc:allmodconfig ... failed
> >
> > Ok, this has been going on since -rc1, which is much too long.
> >
> >>From your patch submission that that was rejected:
> >
> >> The problem was introduced with commit 41b7a347bf14 ("powerpc: Book3S
> >> 64-bit outline-only KASAN support") which adds support for KASAN. This
> >> commit in turn enables DRM_AMD_DC_DCN because KCOV_INSTRUMENT_ALL and
> >> KCOV_ENABLE_COMPARISONS are no longer enabled. As result, new files are
> >> compiled which lack the selection of hard-float.
> >
> > And considering that neither the ppc people nor the drm people seem
> > interested in fixing this, and it doesn't revert cleanly I think the
> > sane solution seems to be to just remove PPC64 support for DRM_AMD_DC
> > entirely.
> >
> > IOW, does something like this (obviously nor a proper patch, but you
> > get the idea) fix the ppc build for you?
> >
> > @@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ config DRM_AMD_DC
> > bool "AMD DC - Enable new display engine"
> > default y
> > select SND_HDA_COMPONENT if SND_HDA_CORE
> > - select DRM_AMD_DC_DCN if (X86 || PPC64) &&
> > !(KCOV_INSTRUMENT_ALL && KCOV_ENABLE_COMPARISONS)
> > + select DRM_AMD_DC_DCN if X86 && !(KCOV_INSTRUMENT_ALL &&
> > KCOV_ENABLE_COMPARISONS)
> > help
> > Choose this option if you want to use the new display engine
> > support for AMDGPU. This adds required support for Vega and
> >
>
> It does, but I can't imagine that the drm or ppc people would be happy
> about it.
If you want to apply Guenter's patch original patch:
https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/490184/
That's fine with me. It just kind of slipped off my radar. We can
dig deeper on a better fix next cycle.
Acked-by: Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher@xxxxxxx>
>
> Guenter
