kernel drm bugs and regressions (mga, savage users please test)

Hans de Goede j.w.r.degoede at hhs.nl
Wed Apr 9 14:26:08 UTC 2008


Dave Airlie wrote:
> I've just tracked down a bug in my code for handling the DRM maps in the
> kernel, that was affecting nouveau (running out of vmalloc space) and
> radeon (hanging on drmGetLock at startup).
>         
> However fixing the bug uncovered a larger bug which is driver specific,
> so the initial fixes are in the kernel building as
> kernel-2_6_25-0_211_rc8_git6_fc9 in koji,
>         
> I'd really like feedback from nouveau, radeon, savage and mga people
> that have working DRI now, and to let me know via a bug if the new
> kernel regresses that or oopses after 211 in the drm code.
>         
> Sorry about this at this late stage, but thats the problem with nasty
> bugs :)
>         
> I can probably test MGA myself at some point with a PCI card, but savage
> hw I have none off.
>         

I was hoping this would fix my i865g freezing on doing any opengl apps 
(glxgears hard freezes it), as this seems to be a kernel issue (downgrading to 
2.6.24 fixes it). Note with both kernels it is not using TTM, so that is not 
the cause.

See:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=440384

Regards,

Hans




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