Bug 607508 – sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-4.9.6-r1 stabilization request

• Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Alice Ferrazzi 2017-01-28 19:23:30 UTC]

Arches, please stabilize gentoo-sources-4.9.6.
4.9.x is in the repository since 2016-12 and we would like to start stabilizing it.

Reproducible: Always

[Comment 1 Gleb 2017-01-29 07:56:49 UTC]

4.9.x has this bug [1] which won't booting on nvidia optimus systems with nouveau driver and runtime power mamangement enabled. The expected fix landed in 4.10 recently and hopefully will appear in 4.9 as well (I hope).

The problem is that xorg will freeze on boot.

[1]: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=98690

[Comment 2 Gleb 2017-01-29 12:07:40 UTC]

Should I file a new bug report here on bugs.gentoo.org about the issue? Is it possible to backport the fix? The whole change is to add only add 1s delay. [1]

The possible solution is to disable runpm and use some other stuff like bbswitch to disable discrete gpu (which I didn't try yet). The other way is to migrate to nvidia drivers and/or use bumblebee (which won't work with nouveau as I know).

https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=68f458eec7069d618a6c884ca007426e0cea411b

[Comment 3 Mike Pagano 2017-01-29 15:49:57 UTC]

Does the patch apply to 4.9 cleanly and fix the issue?

[Comment 4 Mike Pagano 2017-01-29 15:50:23 UTC]

And yes, this should be another bug and I should stop spamming this stable bug also.

[Comment 5 Gleb 2017-01-31 13:56:58 UTC]

https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=602844 - probably this bug should also be fixed before stabilizing the kernel. 340.x is the latest branch for a lot of legacy GPUs.

[Comment 6 Tobias Klausmann (RETIRED) 2017-01-31 15:52:59 UTC]

Stable on alpha.

[Comment 7 Mike Pagano 2017-01-31 22:25:47 UTC]

(In reply to Gleb from comment #5)
> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=602844 - probably this bug should
> also be fixed before stabilizing the kernel. 340.x is the latest branch for
> a lot of legacy GPUs.

Out of kernel drivers never hold up kernel stabilization.

[Comment 8 Paolo Pedroni 2017-02-01 15:23:50 UTC]

There is also bug #602458, even though it has been marked as RESOLVED WONTFIX by the reporter.

There is a patch to solve it in https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=177741 and I can confirm that it works.

[Comment 9 Alice Ferrazzi 2017-02-02 02:26:53 UTC]

please don't write in the stabilization ticket, instead open another bug.

[Comment 10 Alice Ferrazzi 2017-02-02 09:39:46 UTC]

please continue with the stabilization of this kernel

[Comment 11 Aaron Bauman (RETIRED) 2017-02-04 01:22:53 UTC]

amd64 stable

[Comment 12 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) 2017-02-04 12:10:22 UTC]

Stable for HPPA.

[Comment 13 Till Schäfer 2017-02-08 16:37:24 UTC]

Bug 602470: Missing firmware for iwlwifi 7260

[Comment 14 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) 2017-02-08 18:43:06 UTC]

Stable for PPC64.

[Comment 15 Agostino Sarubbo 2017-02-12 15:46:16 UTC]

x86 stable

[Comment 16 Agostino Sarubbo 2017-02-12 17:02:48 UTC]

ppc stable

[Comment 17 Agostino Sarubbo 2017-02-17 10:59:30 UTC]

sparc stable

[Comment 18 Agostino Sarubbo 2017-02-18 14:46:47 UTC]

ia64 stable