[PATCH] new radeon memory map fixes (if you segfault)

Benjamin Herrenschmidt benh at kernel.crashing.org
Wed Jan 25 17:50:58 PST 2006


On Thu, 2006-01-26 at 10:43 +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> Ok, so finally here is a new version of the patch. This time, it's
> against modular and it comes with a DRM patch. The X driver and the DRM
> patch should both work with the unpatched counterpart though you'll only
> get the full benefit of the fixes with both patches applied.
> 
> As I had to shuffle a lot of code around in the X driver, there may
> still be bugs lurking around. Especially look for regressions around
> Xinerama and MergedFB as I haven't yet had a chance to test with those
> (especially Xinerama is doing a lot of very dodgy stuffs in the radeon
> driver).
> 
> Please, try to test all sort of combinations of color tiling on/off, dri
> enabled/disabled, bit depth, hw/sw cursor etc...

BTW. If you get segfaults with the patch, please look into rebuilding
your server with

http://cvs.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/xorg/include/xorg-config.h.in?r1=1.12&r2=1.13

To enable backtrace support, it was broken in stock 7.0

Ben.





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