Glitch in newer drm-next/drm-radeon-testing

Marius Gröger marius.groeger at googlemail.com
Mon Aug 2 03:12:45 PDT 2010


Am 07.06.2010 00:15, wrote Dave Airlie:
> On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 3:52 AM, Marius Gröger
> <marius.groeger at googlemail.com>  wrote:
>> Am 06.06.2010 18:47, schrieb James Simmons:
>>>
>>>>> Apologies for such an unspecific description, and for what almost seems
>>>>> like a support request for MythTV. I wouldn't post here if I were not
>>>>> 100% sure it must be related with the recent drm changes.
>>>>
>>>> Note that the DRM APIs are intended for use by userspace components of
>>>> graphics drivers / API libraries, not applications directly. MythTV
>>>> shouldn't use the DRM directly for synchronization but rather use GLX
>>>> synchronization APIs.
>>>
>>> Tho not the case for MythTV on a embedded device requiring apps to use GLX
>>> wuld be to heavy. I would agree libdrm should be used.
>>
>> I have found the cause for the glitch and just filed
>> http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28411.
>
> Okay I can see the problem, now I have to think of a good solution,
>
> I probably need to break down the locking a bit further which is a bit messy.

Is there any news on this issue? I didn't notice any commits to d-r-t or 
d-n WRT this, but then again those repos aren't updated very frequently 
anyway (how come?)

Thanks T& Regards,
Marius


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