On Tue, Jan 08, 2019 at 01:37:07PM +0000, Daniel Thompson wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 08, 2019 at 11:25:56AM +0100, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> > On Tue, 8 Jan 2019 at 10:36, Renato Golin <renato.go...@linaro.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi Ard,
> > >
> > > I don't have the whole context, but my read of that email is:
> > >
> > > 1. The claim is that "some people had some issues with indeterminate
> > > hardware and indeterminate versions of mesa", however...
> > > 2. He "did run the WebGL CTS suite, but that resulted in some hangs
> > > from the the max-texture-size-equivalent test, and some browser-level
> > > weirdness after some tests where later tests all fail"
> > >
> > > I don't think those two statements are compatible. He can reproduce
> > > lots of failures on his own machine, probably just didn't have time to
> > > investigate all of them in detail.
> > >
> > > Furthermore, he claims the failures are "due to what [he has] to
> > > assume is a browser bug" without any evidence to support it, and later
> > > on claims the driver is fine because "accelerated WebGL [...] in
> > > practice worked just fine (at least in my usage of it)".
> > >
> > > To me, it smells like someone complaining that a broken piece of
> > > software is black-listed and shouldn't have because everyone know it's
> > > broken anyway, but it kinda works, so it's fine.
> >
> > I think one of the complaints is that there is a double standard here.
>
> I was curious enough about this to at least run the test suite
> recommended in the bug tracker.
>
> My Intel/x86_64/Intel/F29 laptop and my Socionext/AArch64/nVidia/buster
> Developerbox work pretty much the same. Which is to say that the test
> suite causes the graphics stacks of both machines to lock up entirely
> (including rejecting any attempt to switch virtual terminals).
>
> Regrettably that makes it difficult to access and share the test results
> prior to failure (I don't *think* the two machines fail at the same
> point although I did neglect to photograph the display so I can't be
> sure).
Presumably this is a similar issue to what we previously observed with
nouveau on developerbox/macchiatobin, and such ssh access should still
be possible?
/
Leif
_______________________________________________
cross-distro mailing list
cross-distro@lists.linaro.org
https://lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/cross-distro
