David & co, any ideas?
There are other reports of problems with 3.3.x kernels, there's a report from Tim timliette@woh.rr.com which may be related (also apparently working in 3.2, broken black screen in all 3.3.x).
Nick, I realize you had trouble with a bisection already, but it might really be worth trying again. Do a
git bisect visualize
and try to pick a good commit (avoding the problems you hit) when you hit a problem, and then do
git reset --hard <that-point>
to force bisection to try another place. That way you can sometimes avoid the problem spots, and continue the bisection.
Linus
On Sat, Apr 21, 2012 at 9:07 PM, Nick Bowler nbowler@elliptictech.com wrote:
On 2012-04-21 15:43 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
But none of it really looks all that scary. It looks like the 3.4 release is all on track, but please do holler if you see regressions.
OK, I'll holler. Nouveau is still broken in mainline, as it has been since March or so, first reported here:
Subject: Regression: black screen on VGA w/ nouveau in Linux 3.3. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1269631
So far, attempts to elicit a response of any kind from maintainers has been about as successful as talking to my doorknob.
Thanks,
Nick Bowler, Elliptic Technologies (http://www.elliptictech.com/)