Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 20 Oct 2015 22:04:22 +0000 (UTC) | From | Scot Doyle <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] fbcon: initialize blink interval before calling fb_set_par |
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On Wed, 21 Oct 2015, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > On Fri, 2015-10-09 at 15:08 +0000, Scot Doyle wrote: > > Since commit 27a4c827c34ac4256a190cc9d24607f953c1c459 > > fbcon: use the cursor blink interval provided by vt > > > > a PPC64LE kernel fails to boot when fbcon_add_cursor_timer uses an > > uninitialized ops->cur_blink_jiffies. Prevent by initializing > > in fbcon_init before the call to info->fbops->fb_set_par. > > Any reason that hasn't hit upstream (and stable) yet ? This is pretty > major...
It's currently in the tty-linus branch of Greg's tty tree, so should be included in the next rc.
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