On Fri, 28 Jan 2011, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > Alternatively, you could take the vanilla Linus' tree and replace > ioremap_cache() with ioremap() in include/linux/acpi_io.h . Please > try that and see if it makes a difference. as a quick followup, i applied the following simple patch: $ git diff diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_opregion.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_opregion.c index 64fd644..28adc6d 100644 --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_opregion.c +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_opregion.c @@ -495,6 +495,8 @@ int intel_opregion_setup(struct drm_device *dev) opregion->acpi = base + OPREGION_ACPI_OFFSET; } +return 0; // rday + if (mboxes & MBOX_SWSCI) { DRM_DEBUG_DRIVER("SWSCI supported\n"); opregion->swsci = base + OPREGION_SWSCI_OFFSET; to the latest tree, and it gave me a booting kernel, no black screen issue. i will not pretend to understand why that fixes the problem but it does. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday ======================================================================== _______________________________________________ dri-devel mailing list dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel