[PATCH] drm/radeon/kms/evergreen: fix gpu hangs in userspace accel code

Dave Airlie airlied at redhat.com
Thu Sep 2 20:57:15 PDT 2010


On Thu, 2010-09-02 at 23:53 -0400, Alex Deucher wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 9:44 PM, Dave Airlie <airlied at redhat.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, 2010-09-02 at 21:32 -0400, Alex Deucher wrote:
> >> These VGT regs need to be programmed via the ring rather than
> >> MMIO as on previous asics (r6xx/r7xx).
> >>
> >
> > So we need someway for userspace to know this has happened, either a
> > version bump or a change to the info ioctl again.
> 
> We can do a version bump for 2.6.36.  Not sure what the best option is
> for 2.6.35.

Yeah if you wanted to fix 2.6.35, you'd need to add yet another info
ioctl.

Dave.



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