[Intel-gfx] [PATCH] EXA pixmap management support (for GTT mapping)

[Jesse Barnes]

On Tuesday, October 28, 2008 1:07 am Alan W. Irwin wrote:
> Eric said:
> > I'd really like to see us drop XAA at this point.  It's not like it
> > really
>
> works on newer hardware, anyway.  And if we could unifdef EXA, I'd be even
> happier -- it really makes a mess of a bunch of our code.
>
> Please don't forget http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14464.
>
> I am dating myself here, but remember when Linux users were proud of
> keeping their desktop systems up for many months in a row and the huge
> chuckle we got over the 49.7-day windows crash (due to an overflowing
> uptime counter) which wasn't fixed for a long time because so few windows
> machines ever reached 49.7 days of operations without a reboot?

Oh how could I forget... Yeah that's an ugly one.  I think we'll need to add 
some more debugging code to figure out what's going wrong there (or worst 
case, if we're hitting a silicon bug, some GPU reset code so we don't crash at 
least).

Maybe we can get this fixed for the 2.6 release; I know this bug (or 
variations of it) has been around for awhile now.

Jesse