Are f21 kernels expected to work on f20 systems with nouveau right now?

Josh Boyer jwboyer at fedoraproject.org
Wed Jan 15 14:33:29 UTC 2014


On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 9:29 AM, Bruno Wolff III <bruno at wolff.to> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 09:24:16 -0500,
>   Josh Boyer <jwboyer at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 9:14 AM, Bruno Wolff III <bruno at wolff.to> wrote:
>>>
>>> Kernels after 3.13-rc7 are not booting on an F20 i686 machine with an
>>> NV28
>>> with a traceback in the nouveau code. I am wondering if there is some
>>> nouveau related change that would make this expected or if I should file
>>> a
>>> bug on this?
>>
>>
>> When in doubt, file a bug.  I've not heard anything that would lead me
>> to believe it's expected.  Assign it to xorg-x11-drv-nouveau.  If it
>> turns out there's some kind of conflict between the kernel and
>> userspace drivers, we can adjust the spec file but I would honestly be
>> surprised if that was the case.
>
>
> Thanks. I need to do some work to enable netconsole early in the boot.
> Hopefully I'll be able to get that done tonight after work. There is a stack
> trace, but 90% of it has rolled off the screen when the system crashes.

Could try pause_on_oops=60 or something to keep it from scrolling for
a while.  Netconsole, if it works, would be better though.

josh


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