[PATCH] new radeon memory map fixes

Kevin Shanahan kmshanah at disenchant.net
Sun Jan 29 15:11:30 PST 2006


On Sun, Jan 29, 2006 at 04:04:50PM +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-01-29 at 10:06 +1030, Kevin Shanahan wrote:
> > Okay; color tiling and dri on/off didn't show any obvious changes. For
> > bit depth I used 16-bit only (required for DRI on 8MB chip). When I
> > enabled sw cursor, the server crashed - a log for that is attached.
> 
> Ok, I think I know what's wrong with that one. I'll try to make a new
> patch soon. I'm a bit distracted at the moment as we just had a baby :)

Hey, congrats! I can understand.

> > I also tested on my desktop with Radeon 9800 Pro (R350), but no
> > miracle improvements there. It still locks up after about 1 minute of
> > glquake, but no problems if not using 3d apps. I'm using xorg 6.9
> > packages there but with libgl1-mesa-dri (6.3.2-2) instead of
> > xlibmesa-dri.
> 
> With both the DRM and the server patch ? Ok, so it seems that my patch
> fix some lockups on some 9800's but not all of them... bummer.

Yes, I patched both. Maybe there were some lockups solved in Mesa 6.4,
but I'll wait until Debian packages are available to test that.

Cheers,
Kevin.



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