This does indeed sound like a good plan, and would be much appreciated. Thanks, Justin
On Fri, Jun 17, 2016 at 10:52 AM, Hans de Goede <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Fedora kernel team, > > If you look at: > > https://retrace.fedoraproject.org/faf/problems/ > > And look for skl_update_other_pipe_wm there, you will see > that it is completely dominating the problem report stats > (listed 4 times on the first page, 5 times on the second). > > As such I'm thinking about backporting the patches: > http://www.spinics.net/lists/intel-gfx/msg95595.html > > To the Fedora 4.6 kernel. > > Some of the reported problems are only a WARN_ON triggering, > but there are also quite a few cases of actually wrong > watermark settings causing various real problems. > > These patches have been around for a long time, but they missed > the 4.6 merge window, and then also the 4.7 merge window, they > are in next now. But IMHO we should grab them now since the > problems they are causing are too big to wait for 4.8 > hitting Fedora. > > So I would like to backport these to the 4.6 Fedora kernel > and have this completed before we start pushing 4.6 updated > to updates-testing. This way we can use the entire Fedora 4.6 > testing phase to also test the backported fixes. > > Before I spend time on this, does this sound like a good > plan ? I've already discussed this within the graphics > team and the consensus there seems to be that this is a good > idea. > > Regards, > > Hans > _______________________________________________ > kernel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/[email protected] > _______________________________________________ kernel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/[email protected]
