[Spice-devel] [PATCH 0/2] stability for dual head

[Alon Levy]

On 06/09/2014 04:18 PM, David Mansfield wrote:
> 
> On 06/09/2014 07:18 AM, Alon Levy wrote:
>> On 06/03/2014 04:14 PM, David Mansfield wrote:
>>> Bump. I'll make it easy.  This is a multiple choice response form.
>>> Anyone reading this can respond with one letter so save time and effort.
>>>
>>> a) "We're too busy with RHEL 7/paying clients, come back in a month/some
>>> timeframe"
>>> b) "There's an SEP field on these problems, everyone who understands
>>> that code has moved on"
>>> c) "Go away"
>>> d) "Oops, I've been meaning to get back to you but I keep forgetting and
>>> life is hectic..."
>>> e) "Didn't you hear? SPICE is dead."
>>> f) "Other." Please elaborate using the space provided below:
>> The first patch looks good (just adjusting the #if to disable the
>> print). I'll pick it up, thanks, you deserved a faster response.
>>
>> No idea what SEP is.
> 
> Hi Alon,
> 
> I followed Marc-André's advice and sent these out to DRI ond xorg
> mailing lists, respectively.  The qxl.ko patch was picked up by Dave
> Airlie and committed to drm-next branch.
> 
> The second is still without a home.
> 
> (BTW: An SEP is a "somebody else's problem" effect, see
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somebody_Else%27s_Problem, popularized in
> Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide novel.  Very funny concept.)

Missed that.

> 
> Any possibility of help with issue #2, the xorg-devel list is silent on
> this  one and I don't know who the maintainer is specifically. Without
> this patch xorg-qxl is trivially crashable when using dual head at
> 1920x1200 resolution (or potentially lower resolution).
> 

96 relocs with 512x512 chunks - what do you do to crash it?

Soren Sandmann is the maintainer, but I did a release once, I can commit
it once I'm done testing (need to allow large resolutions which by
default are limited to surface0_area_size).