On Sat, 11 Jul 2026 14:35:30 -0500 Lionso Alejandro Pacheco Vacacela
<[email protected]> wrote:
[...]
> Since the 7.1.x kernels, systems with AMD CIK/GCN1.1 APUs (Kaveri,
> Kabini, Mullins) that use the analog VGA output get no display signal
> at all: the monitor enters power save at KMS takeover and never wakes.
> The machine is otherwise healthy (reachable over SSH). 7.0.x kernels
> are fine.
[...]
> Root cause (upstream): Linux 7.1 switched CIK APUs to the amdgpu DC
> display stack by default (c81f35cdbab2 "drm/amdgpu: Use DC by default
> on CIK APUs"). DC's support for the NUTMEG bridge requires forcing the
> DP link rate to HBR, but upstream commit
> 
>   a62346043a89 ("drm/amd/display: Fix coding style issue")
> 
> inadvertently broke that quirk (the preferred link rate is no longer
> applied to the link setting the algorithm iterates from), so DP link
> training against the bridge fails at RBR and the output stays dark:
> 
>   [drm] enabling link 2 failed: 15   (DC_FAIL_DP_LINK_TRAINING)
> 
> Upstream fix: "drm/amd/display: Fix preferred link rate for NUTMEG" by
> Timur Kristóf,
>
https://lore.kernel.org/amd-gfx/[email protected]/
> Reviewed-by: Fangzhi Zuo, applied to the amdgpu maintainer tree on
> 2026-07-10; not yet in mainline or 7.1.y at the time of writing. Also
> tracked as https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/amd/-/issues/5465.
[...]

This ended up as commit 9fb646bc4d87f62bcbf0a7ea326430eb802c475c in
7.2-rc4.  Please queue it up for 7.1-stable.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Experience is what causes a person to make new mistakes
instead of old ones.

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