16:19 Caterpillar: in this comment, an AMD developer requires the user to bisect. Is this a feasable thing for a person that never dealt with kernel development? https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/amd/-/issues/2648#note_2131126
16:24 dwfreed: bisection is not a challenging process, mostly just tedious
16:25 dwfreed: however, it's necessary if nobody else can reproduce the issue, which, when hardware is involved, could be more difficult because they may not have the necessary hardware
16:25 Caterpillar: dwfreed: I suppose it requires the user to recompile the kernel many times right?
16:25 dwfreed: yes
16:25 Caterpillar: there are so many commits, it could take months to achieve
16:26 dwfreed: bisection does a binary search tree
16:26 dwfreed: so you only have to check log2(n) commits
16:31 Venemo: Caterpillar: to be fair, it's a yes or no question, and not a requirement. the user could have just answered simply: "no, I can't"
16:33 Venemo: sadly, in many cases it's otherwise impossible to know, as the issue may not reproduce on the developer's machines