On Die, 2003-02-04 at 20:09, Leif Delgass wrote: > On 4 Feb 2003, Michel Dänzer wrote: > > > On Die, 2003-02-04 at 19:36, Keith Whitwell wrote: > > > Michel Dänzer wrote: > > > > On Die, 2003-02-04 at 19:06, Michel Dänzer wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > >>After various tests, it looks like all of this is indeed necessary even > > > >>with AGP. > > > > > > > > > > > > Also, I think at least the r128 driver could use the same treatment, but > > > > we probably want to split COMMIT_RING() off ADVANCE_RING() as well for > > > > that, and I'm not sure rushing that in for 4.3.0 is a good idea. > > > > Opinions, also for the other drivers? > > > > > > The r128 probably still has the mb() in place at least. > > > > Yeah, maybe that avoids the worst problems, but it definitely wasn't > > enough for Chris. > > At least with r128 PCI, I have seen lockups happen after a period of days. > When that happens, I see a sort of greenish bar of corrupted framebuffer > at the top of the screen. Usually killing the server with > Ctl-Alt-Backspace works and I can restart X without a problem. I've also > seen that with same behavior with AGP Radeon 7500 from time to time.
It will be very interesting to see if this change helps for those. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: SourceForge Enterprise Edition + IBM + LinuxWorld = Something 2 See! http://www.vasoftware.com _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
