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Critical regression in 4.7-rcX

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To anyone keeping track of regressions in kernel 4.7, I call your attention to 
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=96675.

This bug causes driver i915 to fail to connect to the display, and results in a 
blank screen as soon as the kernel is loaded. The only way to operate with 
kernel 4.7 is to add "nomodeset" to the command line. The problem was bisected 
to commit f21a21983ef13a ("drm/i915: Splitting intel_dp_detect").

This bug was reported on 2016-06-25 16:10 UTC, but seems to have received no 
attention by the Intel group. That is the reason that I am complaining here. It 
seems very likely that kernel 4.7 will be released with this bug, and a number 
of high-end Toshiba laptops will break.

Thanks,

Larry
-- 
If I was stranded on an island and the only way to get off
the island was to make a pretty UI, I’d die there.

Linus Torvalds

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Critical regression in 4.7-rcX Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> - 2016-07-14 21:30 +0200
  Re: Critical regression in 4.7-rcX Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> - 2016-07-15 09:00 +0200
    Re: Critical regression in 4.7-rcX Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch> - 2016-07-15 16:30 +0200
      Re: Critical regression in 4.7-rcX Ville Syrjälä <ville.syrjala@linux.intel.com> - 2016-07-15 16:50 +0200
        Re: Critical regression in 4.7-rcX Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> - 2016-07-15 17:00 +0200
        Re: Critical regression in 4.7-rcX Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> - 2016-07-15 17:40 +0200
          Re: [Intel-gfx] Critical regression in 4.7-rcX "Bish, Jim" <jim.bish@intel.com> - 2016-07-15 18:40 +0200
            Re: [Intel-gfx] Critical regression in 4.7-rcX Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> - 2016-07-15 19:30 +0200

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