Are f21 kernels expected to work on f20 systems with nouveau right now?
Josh Boyer
jwboyer at fedoraproject.org
Wed Jan 15 15:39:50 UTC 2014
On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 9:24 AM, 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.
So after finally getting through LKML email this morning, there is a
known NULL ptr dereference on older cards that should be fixed with:
commit fdd239ac99a0cc298b382c5ab5e7bcd09e8933d7
Author: Ben Skeggs <bskeggs at redhat.com>
Date: Tue Jan 14 14:56:22 2014 +1000
drm/nouveau: fix null ptr dereferences on some boards
That should be in the build I kicked off this morning.
josh
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