On Mon, Jan 06, 2020 at 08:11:47PM +0100, Romain Dolbeau wrote: > Interesting idea (and I have a 6600 aka NV43 in there, indeed) but I > don't think so, as > a) 'nouveau' works in 4.19 with 64 KiB pages > b) using "module_blacklist=nouveau" doesn't help, I just tried > c) my original 'bisect' was probably using 'nouveau' when the kernel > was booting, so at least some 5.x w/o the offending commit and 64 KiB > pages is fine > d) to my untrained eye, the crash happens _before_ nouveau is loaded > (it seems to me I'm still on the OpenFirmware framebuffer, font change > occurs later). > > Unfortunately I don't have a PCIe OpenFirmware ATI card to test the > theory further. > (... well I _do_ have a Sun XVR-300 ... technically it fits the bill ... )
Oh well. I guess that means they did fix it for all cards and I just don't see which change was relevant for the older chips then. Unless something was missed that only triggers occationally. That would be annoying. -- Len Sorensen
