[Nouveau] gpu lockup detection and fallback to noaccel

[Ben Skeggs]

On Mon, 2011-06-20 at 00:25 +0200, Marcin Slusarz wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 09:27:22AM +0300, Maxim Levitsky wrote:
> > On Tue, 2011-06-14 at 23:18 +0200, Marcin Slusarz wrote: 
> > > Hi
> > > 
> > > I have a very rough patchset which adds support for GPU lockup detection and fallback
> > > to (more or less) noaccel to xf86-video-nouveau.
> > > 
> > > As the patches are only a proof of concept and needs a lot of work, I would like
> > > to know first if this is a desired feature - I don't want to spend a couple of days
> > > on patches which will be ignored or rejected with a reason "we don't need it".
> > > 
> > > So, what do you think?
> > 
> > Will love it! I have unexplained hangs here, so maybe I could debug them
> > further with this.
> > 
> 
> Thanks for encouragement. But...
> 
> I was hoping for reponse from someone with commit access. I really really hate wasting
> time, so I'm not going to finish it. Oh well, I guess it's not that important as I thought.
Hey,

I'd be interested in seeing the approach you've taken at least.  I'm not
convinced this is something we want exactly, my fear is that a lot of
bugs will end up covered over with people not noticing.  But, lets
see :)

Ben.

> 
> Marcin
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