On Sat, 2 Oct 2021 03:17:29 -0700 (PDT) Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Yes (though bisection doesn't work right on this one): the fix Interesting, as it appeared to be very reliable. But I didn't do the "try before / after" on the patch. > https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/1f955bff-fd9e-d2ee-132a-f758add9e9cb@xxxxxxxxxx/ > seems to have got lost in the system: it has not even appeared in > linux-next yet. I was going to send a reminder later this weekend. > > Here it is again (but edited to replace "__aligned(4)" in the original > by the official "__i915_sw_fence_call" I discovered afterwards; and > ignoring recent discussions of where __attributes ought to appear :-) > > > [PATCH] drm/i915: fix blank screen booting crashes Thanks, I added it to my "fixes" patch set that I apply before testing. It looks to have done the trick, and the kernel boots now. Tested-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> -- Steve