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Date:      Wed, 18 Dec 2013 07:41:08 +0100
From:      dt71@gmx.com
To:        =?UTF-8?B?SmVhbi1Tw6liYXN0aWVuIFDDqWRyb24=?= <dumbbell@FreeBSD.org>,  freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: new Xorg (KMS, etc.) for Radeon 9600
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Jean-Sébastien Pédron wrote, On 12/17/2013 22:20:
> On 16.12.2013 08:36, dt71@gmx.com wrote:
>> Still nobody wants to apply Robert Noland's DRM patch?
>
> What problem(s) does this patch fix?

It fixes non-deterministic lockups when the (old, drm1) r300 drivers are used.

According to John Baldwin [1]: "The drm code is doing a copyin() while holding a mutex (which is not allowed)." The latest version of the patch (also the one I used for years) is at [2], linked from [3].

[1] http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2009-April/005988.html
[2] http://people.freebsd.org/~rnoland/drm_radeon-copyin-fix-try2.patch
[3] http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2009-April/006080.html




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