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I found it.<br>
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void radeon_vram_location in radeon_device.c says<br>
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* Note: GTT start, end, size should be initialized before calling
this<br>
* function on AGP platform.<br>
*<br>
* Note: We don't explicitly enforce VRAM start to be aligned on
VRAM size,<br>
* this shouldn't be a problem as we are using the PCI aperture as a
reference.<br>
* Otherwise this would be needed for rv280, all r3xx, and all r4xx,
but<br>
* not IGP.<br>
*<br>
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so does this mean i just have to re-apply the old patch i found ?
struct radeon_mc in radeon.h contains aper_base as a member which
could be set using the code snippet below.<br>
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Cheers<br>
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Jochen<br>
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I've done some more researching and found the following: <br>
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- There's another follow-on-patch ("Extend the alignement
workaround to post-rv280 chips as well") to the one indicated
below (<a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://cgit.freedesktop.org/%7Eagd5f/xf86-video-ati/commit/?id=b2145aea36bb035bff048366c607b967d70fff49">http://cgit.freedesktop.org/~agd5f/xf86-video-ati/commit/?id=b2145aea36bb035bff048366c607b967d70fff49</a>)
that applies to not only RV280 but "rv280, all r3xx, and all
r4xx, but not IGP" (even stranger that its being lost hasn't
been recognized).<br>
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- the piece of code affected seems to be (IMHO) in
drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/: The (Radeon ?) Register
RADEON_CONFIG_APER_0_BASE is defined in radeon_reg.h but never
used in the driver:<br>
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radeon_reg.h:#define RADEON_CONFIG_APER_0_BASE 0x0100<br>
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Since i don't assume that Radeon hardware has changed too much
since 2006 i also assume that this register definition is still
valid i.e. the register still exists on those cards :-). So why
is it never used/set/read in the kernel driver ? The same
applies to the xf86-video-ati driver, the register is defined
but never used/set/read. Strange. But maybe the driver can do
without setting or reading registers ? :-)<br>
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in r100.c there's<br>
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static u32 r100_get_accessible_vram(struct radeon_device *rdev)<br>
{<br>
u32 aper_size;<br>
u8 byte;<br>
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aper_size = RREG32(RADEON_CONFIG_APER_SIZE);<br>
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/* Set HDP_APER_CNTL only on cards that are known not to be
broken,<br>
* that is has the 2nd generation multifunction PCI
interface<br>
*/<br>
if (rdev->family == CHIP_RV280 ||<br>
rdev->family >= CHIP_RV350) {<br>
WREG32_P(RADEON_HOST_PATH_CNTL, RADEON_HDP_APER_CNTL,<br>
~RADEON_HDP_APER_CNTL);<br>
DRM_INFO("Generation 2 PCI interface, using max
accessible memory\n");<br>
return aper_size * 2;<br>
}<br>
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That's the code executed on my machine according to dmesg.
Missing (from the original patch, not applicable any more
because of driver reorganization) seems to be<br>
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CARD32 aper0_base = INREG(RADEON_CONFIG_APER_0_BASE);<br>
aper0_base &= ~(mem_size - 1);<br>
info->mc_fb_location = (aper0_base >> 16);<br>
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The patch that seems to have removed/overridden this code is:<br>
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<a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
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According to that patch, it was "booted on PCI r100, PCIE rv370,
IGP rs400". So IMHO this could be a classical regression for an
AGP RV280 card (like mine) and might explain why PCI mode works.
this is Additionally corroborated by this post (<a
moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.freedesktop.xorg/5429">http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.freedesktop.xorg/5429</a>):<br>
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<i>"Roland Scheidegger wrote: > I've tried the patch with my
radeon 9000pro, and it does not work there > neither.
Issues are pretty similar, moving (3d) windows around leaves
> artifacts (and eventually even a gpu lockup), xawtv
overlay still > doesn't work, but on this setup I got the
mouse pointer back at least. I got the patch to work when
disabling this: </i><i><br>
</i><i><br>
</i><i>* The above doesn't necessarily work. For example, I've
seen machines * with 128Mb configured as 2x64Mb apertures. I'm
now _</i><i><u>always</u></i><i>_ setting *
RADEON_HOST_PATH_CNTL. OUTREGP (RADEON_HOST_PATH_CNTL,
RADEON_HDP_APER_CNTL, ~RADEON_HDP_APER_CNTL); (which was
previously done only on some chip families). <br>
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<b><u>I _</u></b></i><b><u><i>think</i></u></b><b><u><i>_ this
is not correct on all cards as the apertures may not be
configured correctly (and X doesn't set them up neither,
if those correspond to the RADEON_CONFIG_APER registers)</i></u></b><b><u><i>"</i></u></b><br>
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Could a Radeon guru confirm this or am i totally lost?<br>
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by the way, Haiku OS seems to have the patch :-) :<br>
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<pre>// graphics card addresses correspond to physical CPU addresses as much as possible
static void Radeon_SetupMCAddresses_Direct( device_info *di )
{
shared_info *si = di->si;
uint32 aper0 = INREG( di->regs, RADEON_CONFIG_APER_0_BASE );
// bug in asics mean memory must be aligned to memory size...
if ( IS_DI_R300_VARIANT || di->asic == rt_rv280 ) {
aper0 &= ~( di->local_mem_size - 1 );</pre>
Cheers<br>
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<pre>sorry about that.
Anyway, i checked drivers/gpu/drm/radeon and
drivers/char/agp/uninorth-agp.c and can't seem to find the patch
indicated below. Might it have gone missing :-) ?
Am 08.10.2013 18:41, schrieb Michel Dänzer:
> [ Please always follow up to the mailing list ]
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> On Die, 2013-10-08 at 14:53 +0200, Jochen Rollwagen wrote:
>> Am 08.10.2013 10:03, schrieb Michel Dänzer:
>>> On Sam, 2013-10-05 at 15:13 +0200, Jochen Rollwagen wrote:
>>>> I’m running a RV280 based Radeon 9200 card (I know, an ancient card)
>>>> in a Mac Mini G4 (powerpc-architecture) with Ubuntu Precise and the
>>>> latest 3.4.64-kernel/ati driver and get lockups when trying to run the
>>>> card in AGP mode (KMS enabled). The lockups happen when resetting the
>>>> card (that’s what I can infer from the oops-screen).
>>> It's the other way around: The kernel radeon driver resets the card to
>>> try and get it running again after a lockup.
>>>
>>>
>>>> PCI mode works. After researching I found a old bug that was fixed
>>>> back in 2006 (<a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6011">https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6011</a>) that
>>>> looks like the freeze I experience (since PCI mode – which allocates
>>>> 64 MB of memory - works and AGP mode which by default allocates 256 MB
>>>> doesn’t). The card has 64 mb memory.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> So the first question is, could this be the problem that causes the
>>>> lockups ?
>>> Not really. The GART and VRAM memory apertures aren't directly related,
>>> and the fix for the bug above should still be incorporated in the
>>> current radeon KMS code.
>>>
>>>
>>> Does radeon.agpmode=1 or radeon.agpmode=4 work?
>>>
>>>
>> Thank you for your reply. First, none of the agpmodes work, they just
>> take more or less time to lockup the card (1 - slowest, 4 fastest).
>> Secondly, if you write that the fix "should be incorporated in the
>> current code", i'm somewhat lost because it definitely isn't there.
> It's in the kernel now.
>
>
Well........no. I checked the 3.4.64 kernel sources after my last Mail
and the code isn't in the drivers/gpu/drm/radeon sources. But of course
i might have overlooked something.
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