Fixing a Steam Deck OLED bug for the Linux kernel 6.14 release was a major challenge

c/steamdeck · u/Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz · 62 points

This is a nice look behind the scenes of the work and companies that go into fixing a bug like this.

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The DSP firmware the code comment mentions is probably a proprietary binary blob, right? That means it's pretty much a blackbox and it's not possible to fix the underlying issue, hence this workaround.

u/Creat@discuss.tchncs.de · 12 points

Ah yes the old classic "I don't know what the actual problem is, but just waiting a bit seems to help".

u/jokro@feddit.org · 8 points

Following the post to the collabera post lead to this patch: https://web.git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=91b98d5a6e8067c5226207487681a48f0d651e46