Package: linux Version: 3.2.21-3 Tags: patch Turning this feature request into a bug report. Note that it blocks #679557 which I have just filed at RC severity.
On 2012-06-16 14:16 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote:
> On 2012-06-04 20:42 +0200, Julien Cristau wrote:
>
>> We'll probably also need some nouveau updates to (at least) update to
>> the 1.0.0 ABI,
>
> See commit ace77b6b1304 in xserver-xorg-video-nouveau for the reason:
>
> commit ace77b6b1304826f4004bde23809b55d476b0615
> Author: Ben Skeggs <bske...@redhat.com>
> Date: Tue May 29 21:21:57 2012 +1000
>
> disable fermi accel on 0.0.16 interface
>
> Kepler accel support broke some assumption made by the older kernel
> interface, and Fermi shares the same code. It can't work (without
> some annoying hacks anyway) with the 0.0.16 kernel anymore.
>
> diff --git a/src/nv_dma.c b/src/nv_dma.c
> index 3b75ca9..1757f4d 100644
> --- a/src/nv_dma.c
> +++ b/src/nv_dma.c
> @@ -36,6 +36,12 @@ NVInitDma(ScrnInfoPtr pScrn)
> int size, ret;
> void *data;
>
> + if (pNv->dev->drm_version < 0x01000000 && pNv->dev->chipset >= 0xc0) {
> + xf86DrvMsg(pScrn->scrnIndex, X_ERROR,
> + "Fermi acceleration not supported on old kernel\n");
> + return FALSE;
> + }
> +
> if (pNv->Architecture < NV_ARCH_C0) {
> data = &nv04_data;
> size = sizeof(nv04_data);
>
>> I haven't had time to look at this at all, but I think
>> Maarten had a backport at
>> http://people.canonical.com/~mlankhorst/drm-abi-patches.tgz
>
> Note that this is actually an uncompressed tar archive.
Attached is a compressed version of it.
Cheers,
Sven
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