[Bug 1912] Dynamic clock cause hard lockup on Radeon 7000 + SMP

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------- Additional Comments From agd5f at yahoo.com  2004-11-30 12:03 -------
(In reply to comment #11)
> (In reply to comment #10)
> > (In reply to comment #9)
> > > What about just playing it safe and go with the 6.7.0 clock setting for all
> > > chipsets when DynamicClocks are disabled?
> > 
> > I was considering the same thing.  The only potential problem I could see would
> > be where a user used dynamicclocks on one server startup and then turned it off
> > the next round without a reboot.  would the 6.7 behavior be enough?  I suppose
> > if it caused any problems a reboot would solve them.
> 
> Ah, I see what you're saying, those dynamic clock bits wouldn't be set back to
> static clock in that case, which would interfer with the 6.7 clock setup code
> when starting the X server without dynamic clocks.
> 
> I think this is a reasonable tradeoff though, it's better to have a stable
> server that could act a bit strange when changing the config, than a server
> locks up hard on a number of cards.

Agreed.  I'll post a new patch tonight.
        
   
   
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