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Date:      Wed, 18 Dec 2013 11:22:47 +0100
From:      =?UTF-8?B?SmVhbi1Tw6liYXN0aWVuIFDDqWRyb24=?= <dumbbell@FreeBSD.org>
To:        dt71@gmx.com, Robert Noland <rnoland@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        "freebsd-current@freebsd.org" <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: new Xorg (KMS, etc.) for Radeon 9600
Message-ID:  <52B17777.6060703@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <52B14384.5060102@gmx.com>
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On 18.12.2013 07:41, dt71@gmx.com wrote:
> Jean-S=C3=A9bastien P=C3=A9dron 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?
>=20
> It fixes non-deterministic lockups when the (old, drm1) r300 drivers ar=
e
> used.
>=20
> 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 patc=
h
> (also the one I used for years) is at [2], linked from [3].
>=20
> [1]
> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2009-April/005988.ht=
ml
> [2] http://people.freebsd.org/~rnoland/drm_radeon-copyin-fix-try2.patch=

> [3]
> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2009-April/006080.ht=
ml

Oh, I didn't notice that the patch targets the old driver, not the new
KMS one. I must admit this part isn't my priority and I'm already busy
with the new driver.

Robert, you worked on this patch a few years ago. Could you please look
at it again and maybe commit?

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Jean-S=C3=A9bastien P=C3=A9dron


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