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

[David Mansfield]

On 06/09/2014 09:29 AM, Alon Levy wrote:
> 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).

Good morning (evening?) Alon,

Anything else you need from me on this? I've attached the patch from 
git-format-patch that should have all of the correct signed-off etc. and 
a proper commit description.

Just a friendly ping.

-- 
Thanks,
David Mansfield,
Cobite, INC.


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