[Mesa-dev] [Piglit] Black screen / hang in piglit's spec at ext_texture_lod_bias@lodbias test on radionsi with ubuntu 16.04

[Dan Kegel]

Thanks, sorry for the noise.  Filed
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=97618
- Dan

On Tue, Sep 6, 2016 at 2:12 PM, Ilia Mirkin <imirkin at alum.mit.edu> wrote:
> [-piglit,+mesa-dev]
>
> On Tue, Sep 6, 2016 at 5:03 PM, Dan Kegel <dank at kegel.com> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> happily running piglit on Ubuntu 16.04 with an AMD W600 card.  No
>> system crashes so far :-)
>> But I do have an X hang.  Black screen, test hung, but still available via ssh.
>>
>> I looked in https://bugs.freedesktop.org/buglist.cgi?component=Drivers%2FGallium%2Fradeonsi&product=Mesa
>> but didn't see this hang mentioned offhand; I assume that's the right place.
>>
>> Here's what I would file there.  Does this look about right?  Or is it
>> frowned upon to report
>> hangs from ubuntu releases rather than tip?
>
> piglit@ is for ... piglit. The issue you have isn't with piglit but
> rather with the driver. Use either mesa-dev@ or dri-devel@ for that.
> The bug tracker link you found is the proper place to file a bug.
>
> While I am in no way connected to the AMD team, I can pretty much
> guarantee someone will ask you what a W600 card is, so include lspci
> -nn output, and your radeonsi_dri.so doesn't include any debug
> symbols, making it harder to see what's going on.
>
> Graphics development pace tends to be quick (which is a polite way of
> saying that the drivers suck in various ways but are being actively
> improved), so testing with the latest and greatest is definitely
> encouraged. Different teams provide different levels of support for
> various "old" things, not sure where AMD is at exactly in that regard.
>
> Cheers,
>
>   -ilia