Re: i915 drm patches in LTS 4.4.x ?

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On Tue, 2016-07-19 at 10:59 +0200, Willy Tarreau wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 19, 2016 at 08:41:21AM +0000, Joakim Tjernlund wrote:
> > 
> > > 
> > > Did you try it or at least the kernel which contains it ? It is important
> > 
> > No I haven't. I myself do not have such a laptop so I must find someone that does
> > and willing to test stuff for me(I maintain our Linux DE used for in-house development)
> > All I can say for sure is that 4.1.x works and 4.4.x does not :(
> 
> OK that's already a good indication.
> 
> (...)
> > 
> > Yes I get that but I figured that a upstream commit that is marked:
> >  Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> # v4.2+
> > already was approved for stable and it would find its way into all relevant branches.
> 
> Indeed it could be one candidate, so if you can afford to wait for a
> next release to see if it fixes your problem that's the easiest way.
> Otherwise you'll have to bisect either between 4.1 and 4.4 to find
> which one broke, or to test mainline to see if it's fixed again. But
> given that it was a regression, it's likely that someone else will
> notice it and propose a fix (possibly the one above).
> 

Yes, plenty of people have similar has a problem but Intel devs have had hard time
finding the bugs.

Greg, could push your mail queue so I can compare with upstream?

Seems like this patch has been lost though:
 [PATCH stable-4.4] drm/i915: Update CDCLK_FREQ register on BDW after changing cdclk frequency

 Jocke

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