[arch-general] Getting freeze on early start with linux 4.9-1 kernel.

[fredbezies]

2016-12-23 14:58 GMT+01:00 Carsten Mattner <carstenmattner at gmail.com>:
> On Fri, Dec 23, 2016 at 1:59 PM, fredbezies via arch-general
> <arch-general at archlinux.org> wrote:
>> Hello.
>>
>> I'm facing an annoying bug with linux 4.9-1 kernel on my 6 or 7 years
>> old Toshiba Laptop. When I try to make it boot on with linux 4.9-1
>> kernel, it freeze right after loading initramfs.
>>
>> 4.8.xx kernel was working flawlessly. My eeePC (nearly 9 years old)
>> and my desktop computer (which is AMD based) are both starting with
>> linux 4.9.
>>
>> I opened a bug : https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/52246
>>
>> Here is my lspci. If someone can help me finding what is happening,
[...]
>
> Does the fallback boot entry work?

No.

>
> Have you tried reinstalling the kernel?

Yes.

[...]
>
> If this is a regression you will have to post dmesg. If you don't see
> errors/warnings, then kernel developers would usually ask to enable
> debug flags for printing more information during boot.

I wonder if there is any dmesg logged while booting on initramfs...
Will try to see anyway.

>
> That said, I have one old machine with a Core2Duo and GM4xx and
> ever since DRM's atomic modesetting was introduced in 4.2, I can
> only use 4.1 warning free. Regressions do happen but you had no
> warnings or errors in 4.8 so yours looks like a different regression.

I wonder which option listed here is the culprit.

https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/commit/trunk?h=packages/linux&id=26d5f8c9110f0fca96a7ef05c235dd005b1049a7

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Frederic Bezies
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