On Wed, 2016-06-29 at 18:29 +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > On Wed, 2016-06-29 at 18:19 +1000, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote: > > This is rather a bugreport than actual revert but nevertheless. > > > > Since 27a4c827c34a I started noticing weird traces and quite often > > I could not boot my test machine which is POWER8 box with AST video > > or ATI video (video adapter type does not matter much although > > is happens lot more often with the OpenPOWER machine which got > > AST). > > The system console is IPMI, not the actual video adapter. > > > > I bisected it to this: > > > > https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/com > > mi > > t/?id=27a4c827c34ac4256a190cc9d24607f953c1c459 > > > > For some reason which I do not understand, in > > cursor_timer_handler(), > > ops->cur_blink_jiffies is zero. Why can this happen? What is a > > proper > > fix? Thanks. > > Rings a bell... do you have fbcon: initialize blink interval before > calling fb_set_par (f235f664a8afabccf863a5dee4777d2d7b676fda) ? Also check if you have: > Cheers, > Ben. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fbdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
