Radeon mem map fix: Need regression tests please

Benjamin Herrenschmidt benh at kernel.crashing.org
Mon Dec 19 13:40:18 PST 2005


On Mon, 2005-12-19 at 20:59 +0100, Alexander Rauth wrote:
> Am Montag, den 19.12.2005, 17:07 +1100 schrieb Benjamin Herrenschmidt:
> > I think I've get something in shape for getting the radeon memory map
> > finally sane, removing all sort of hacks, and possibly fixing all sort
> > of weird bugs. It works best with the very latest radeon DRM fixes to
> > the same area but might well improve things all by itself.
> 
> if installed vanilla-sources-2.6.15-rc6 ... 
> 
> <snip>
>  Benjamin Herrenschmidt:
> <snip>
>       radeon drm: fix agp aperture map offset
> <snip>
> 
> all patches you asked for testing included in this release???

Yes.

> I've tested everything expect for vgacon switch ... everything working
> STABLE for the first time with modular Xorg (I've being testing since
> RC1). All version I've tested until this patch level completely froze my
> system. It's a pity that it won't make it into 7.0-final....
> 
> I have a Radeon RV100 in an Dual Athlon system. Is there a chance that
> this version of the xorg-radeon driver is SMP save if DRM is enabled. I
> haven't tested any RC on this machine. 
> xorg 6.8.2 with gentoo patches actually hangs the system.    

I don't know about SMP & DRM, that's not an issue I've tackled yet.

> > Thanks in advance,
> > Ben.
> 
> Thank you for your great work!
> Alexander
> 




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