On Don, 2010-03-25 at 03:35 +0000, Dave Airlie wrote: > > [...] I've merged Jerome's GPU recovery code, as I'd much rather users > had some of hope of recovering from their GPU locking up than a dead > box. It seems to work for quite a lot of people that have tested it, > and it won't make a GPU lockup problem worse.
Actually, I'm not sure that's true in all cases. With Jerome's changes, a GPU lockup seems to basically turn my PowerBook into a pretty brick right away. It would be preferable to have non-working local display (actually, it should be possible to fall back to software for 2D?) but be able to log in via SSH and do post-mortem analysis and reboot cleanly. That said, I don't know if Jerome's changes actually made things any worse, as I hadn't run into GPU lockups for a while before yesterday (see my other list post). But the commit logs did mention that the GPU reset is unlikely to work with the R300 generation... (though I suspect the fact this isn't x86 may not exactly help) -- Earthling Michel Dänzer | http://www.vmware.com Libre software enthusiast | Debian, X and DRI developer ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev -- _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list Dri-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
