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

David Airlie airlied at redhat.com
Wed Jan 15 21:36:51 UTC 2014



> 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.


I think its just upstream broken, fixes sent upstream yesterday should fix it.

Dave.


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