On Wed, Aug 03, 2016 at 03:48:02PM +0000, Vivi, Rodrigo wrote: > On Wed, 2016-08-03 at 17:26 +0200, Daniel Vetter wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 3, 2016 at 5:12 PM, Vivi, Rodrigo <rodrigo.vivi@xxxxxxxxx > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > But we know that 1.23 is bad and cause issues regardless the kernel > > > version. And please keep in mind this is the most common case. > > > Usually a previous minor version was dropped in favor of a new one > > > because we found a bug that got fixed in a following minor version. > > > This is the minor version idea. So regardless the kernel version, > > > the > > > newest minor is probably safest than the previous one. > > > > > > So, I don't want to keep all versions in linux-firmware.git, > > > specially > > > those that we know that cause bad issues. > > > > > > And here is the case were only symbolic link would help imho. > > If a system goes from "mostly works" to "fails because DMC isn't > > there > > any more" then that's a regression. Which means we _must_ resstore > > 1.23. > > From what I can remember it causes GPU Hangs depending on what you are > running on the GPU. Sounds like we should submit a fix to stable that makes the minimum required version 1.26 if that's indeed the case. I wonder if this the cause of all the hangs I've seen on my Skylake laptop lately; I have both 1.23 and 1.26 installed, so I hadn't noticed that it's loading 1.23 instead of 1.26. Kind regards, David Weinehall _______________________________________________ Intel-gfx mailing list Intel-gfx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/intel-gfx
