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From: Steffen Nurpmeso <steffen@sdaoden.eu>
To: Natanael Copa <ncopa@alpinelinux.org>
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Subject: Re: [alpine-devel] 4.14.18-vanilla breaks framebuffer console on
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Ahoj,

Natanael Copa <ncopa@alpinelinux.org> wrote:
 |On Sat, 10 Feb 2018 23:14:00 +0100
 |Steffen Nurpmeso <steffen@sdaoden.eu> wrote:
 |> So i have switched the server to 4.14.18 which does not even
 |> require nopti there, but the console does not show up.
 ...
 |What hardware is it?

A VM hosted by a German hoster (portunity).
dmesg shows kvm-clock and "VMware VMMouse" as well as QEMU QEMU
USB Tablet and QEMU DVD-ROM.

  ...
 |We have FB_SIMPLE enabled, so I don't think this is your problem.
  ...
 |Looks like CONFIG_X86_SYSFB is disabled on Fedora too. I disabled it,
 |but kept FB_SIMPLE. Can you please test the 4.14.20 kernel and see if
 |it fixes the issue for you?

Works with "gfxpayload=keep":

  [    1.051897] fb: switching to cirrusdrmfb from EFI VGA
  [    1.051952] Console: switching to colour dummy device 80x25
  ...
  [    1.053659] fbcon: cirrusdrmfb (fb0) is primary device
  [    1.057474] Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 128x48
  [    1.064294] cirrus 0000:00:02.0: fb0: cirrusdrmfb frame buffer device
  [    1.073400] [drm] Initialized cirrus 1.0.0 20110418 for 0000:00:02.0 on minor 0

Thank you.

--steffen
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