On Wed, Oct 22, 2025 at 06:49:21AM +0200, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: > On 10/21/25 21:50, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > > 6.17-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. > > > > ------------------ > > > > From: Thomas Zimmermann <[email protected]> > > > > commit 6f719373b943a955fee6fc2012aed207b65e2854 upstream. > > > > Blank the display by disabling sync pulses with VGACR17<7>. Unblank > > by reenabling them. This VGA setting should be supported by all Aspeed > > hardware. > > TWIMC, a regression report about 6.18-rc2 that was bisected to this > commit just came in: > > https://lore.kernel.org/all/[email protected]/ > > To quote: > > """ > I have encountered a serious (for me) regression with 6.18-rc2 on my > 2-socket Ivy Bridge Xeon E5-2697 v2 server. After > booting, my console screen goes blank and stays blank. 6.18-rc1 was > still fine. > > [...] > > When I revert this from 6.18-rc2, the issue goes away and my console > screen works again. > """
Thanks, I'll go drop this patch from the stable queues for now. greg k-h
