On Sat, 20 Nov 2010 19:59:34 -0800, Keith Packard <kei...@keithp.com> wrote: > On Sat, 20 Nov 2010 16:17:40 +0100, Matthias Hopf <mh...@suse.de> wrote: > > > I know, I know. The patch is (one of) the results of the Novell-HP-Intel > > workshop in Taipei this week. It turned out that rev07 is too unstable. > > Keith and Eric can probably comment on this. Better than I can. > > There's a work-around in the kernel for pre rev-8 hardware that ensures > every time the blt ring is advanced by the CPU, the first command > executes a batch buffer. So the hardware is obviously quite broken. > > This workaround doesn't work perfectly, and the GPU will still lock up > when executing commands out of the blt ring from time to time. As pre > rev-8 hardware is all pre-production, the workarounds should be removed > From the driver and all acceleration disabled.
Ah ha! If it's the BLT workaround, then yes that can die in a very hot fire. Thanks for the explanation. -Chris -- Chris Wilson, Intel Open Source Technology Centre _______________________________________________ Intel-gfx mailing list Intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/intel-gfx
