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

[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.

Dave.