Hi On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 8:59 AM, Chris Wilson <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sat, Jun 28, 2014 at 11:55:19PM -0400, Ed Tomlinson wrote: >> On Saturday 28 June 2014 15:28:22 Ed Tomlinson wrote: >> >> Resend without html krud which causes list to bounce the message. >> >> > Hi >> > >> > This commit ( a4de05268e674e8ed31df6348269e22d6c6a1803 ) hangs my boot with 3.16-git. Reverting it lets the boot proceed. >> > >> > I have an i7 with a built-in i915 and an pcie r7 260x. The R7 is the primary console. The i915 is initialized >> > but does not have a physical display attached. >> > >> > With the patch applied the boot stops at the messages: >> > >> > [drm] Memory usable by graphics device = 2048M >> > [drm] Replacing VGA console driver > > The issue looks like that we are ripping out the radeon fb_con whilst it > is active and that upsets everyone. In which case, I think the > compromise is: do_take_over_console() should only touch console-drivers like fbcon. How does this affect the underlying fbdev device? Ripping out active or inactive fbcon should be just fine, shouldn't it? Given that this hard-locks at kick_out_vgacon(), this looks more like a dead-lock to me. Thanks David _______________________________________________ dri-devel mailing list dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel
