On Tue, 15 Oct 2002, Charl P. Botha wrote:
> You might remember a while back that several Radeon and R128 boards suffered
> from a server crash at VT switch time. This was due to the fact that these
> cards (for some or other reason) disable bus mastering when switching to VT.
> The bug was fixed by adding a call to xf86EnablePciBusMaster() in
> {RADEON,R128}EnterVT(). This change was subsequently committed to both DRI
> and XFree86 main trees.
> I noticed the other day that this change has disappeared again with the
> following CVS log message:
> revision 1.65
> date: 2002/10/08 22:14:05; author: tsi; state: Exp; lines: +1 -8
> 367. When enabling PCI adapters, also enable their bus mastering capability;
> Consequently, deprecate xf86EnablePciBusMaster() (Marc La France).
> This would mean that the bug is back and people will again have the stupid
No, it doesn't.
> VT switch lockup. What would be the New and Improved Way(tm) way of
> explicitly re-enabling bus-mastering at RADEONEnterVT() time since
> xf86EnablePciBusMaster() has been deprecated?
Just like the change notice says: When a PCI device is enabled, it's bus
mastering is also enabled. This occurs before any driver code is
executed.
Marc.
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