Hi.
My wonderful MPB (15", 2.6.18 + mactel patches, debian/etch)
was working seamlessly with the ATI driver w/o kernel module.
When I played a DVD I found out that performance sucked because
there was no XVideo support w/o the fglrx kernel module.
I had the fglrx-8.28.8 debian packages installed but the kernel module
wouldn't build for linux-2.6.18 so I upgraded to 8.29.6.
After installing the fglrx driver/module (I'm using the kernel agpgart
module, not the ATI one) and restarting X the log reported XVideo
support and DVD playback was alright w/o loading the CPU much.
(as always make sure DMA is enabled on the DVD player [hdparm -d1]).
The surprise came when I tried to suspend the machine. It would just
freeze. After some playing around I found that the proprietary
routines ATI uses to save/restore the PCI config register state
are responsible. After substituting theirs for the generic linux versions
everything worked fine.
After doing some close inspection of the code and having
__ke_pci_read_config_dword() print it's arguments (wrapper called
by firegl_pci_save_state() confirmed my suspicion: the pointers passed to
__ke_pci_read_config_dword() are completely bogus and lead to
memory corruption and/or other bad things.
Using the attached patch squeezes this bug
-- Till
PS: Please CC me
strauman theatsign slac adot stanford adot edu
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*** firegl_public.c.orig 2006-10-18 14:15:23.000000000 -0700
--- firegl_public.c 2006-10-18 15:17:16.000000000 -0700
***************
*** 725,731 ****
if (!ret)
{
! firegl_pci_save_state(privdev);
pci_disable_device(pdev);
PMSG_EVENT(pdev->dev.power.power_state) = state;
}
--- 725,731 ----
if (!ret)
{
! pci_save_state(pdev);
pci_disable_device(pdev);
PMSG_EVENT(pdev->dev.power.power_state) = state;
}
***************
*** 749,755 ****
// PCI config space needs to be restored very early, in particular
// before pci_set_master!
! firegl_pci_restore_state(privdev);
if (pci_enable_device(pdev))
{
--- 749,755 ----
// PCI config space needs to be restored very early, in particular
// before pci_set_master!
! pci_restore_state(pdev);
if (pci_enable_device(pdev))
{
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