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Am 20.11.20 um 10:52 schrieb David Laight:
>> Hi David
>>
>> Am 18.11.20 um 23:01 schrieb David Laight:
> ...
>> Did you try Daniel's suggestion of testing with the direct parent commit?
> (I was on holiday yesterday and didn't want to spend a sunny
> afternoon doing bisects.)

Makes sense :)

>
> I've just done that and it is bad.
>
> Is there any way to bisect through the parts of the
> drm merge patch into v5.10-rc1 ?
>
> That ought to be quicker (and less error prone) than
> the bisect builds I was doing.
>
> Note that the stack 'splat' is due to a later change.
> It is separate from the broken pixel alignment.
>
> I actually saw the vga text go 'funny' while the boot
> was outputting all the [OK] messages (from systemd?)
> before the graphic login stole tty1 (bloody stupid
> to use tty1).
>
> I don't need to use the failing system today, I'll
> have another go at isolating the failure.

You can use drm-tip for testing, where many of the DRM patches go through.

https://cgit.freedesktop.org/drm/drm-tip/

It's fairly up-to-date.

I have two systems with AST chips and neither shows any of the symptoms
you describe; nor do we have such reports about drivers that use a
similar stack (hibmc, bochs). Could you provide the output of

dmesg | grep drm

Best regards
Thomas

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