Bug#839381: xserver-xorg-video-amdgpu: very long Xorg initilization time in recent kernels

[Michel Dänzer <michel@daenzer.net>]

On 01/10/16 06:30 PM, Michael Strobel wrote:
> Package: xserver-xorg-video-amdgpu
> Version: 1.1.2-1
> Severity: normal
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> i'm running debian testing and for quite a while i have problems with my
> xserver on newer kernels. While linux-image-4.2.0-1-amd64 works fine linux-image-4.6.0-1-amd64 and linux-image-4.7.0-1-amd64 my xserver spends very long time (several minutes) on initialization. 
> The only problem i can spot is a lot of 
> 
> Failed to send Previous Message.
> Failed to send Message.
> 
> messages in dmesg. I'm not complete sure if the problem is even xserver

Yeah, unless this doesn't happen with an older version of
xserver-xorg-video-amdgpu (and possibly related packages), it sounds
like an amdgpu kernel driver regression. Any chance you can bisect or at
least narrow down which kernel version introduced the problem?


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