On Sun, 2011-03-06 at 19:49 -0500, John D. Hendrickson and Sara Darnell wrote: > I haven't heard of many chips that won't hang given the wrong > instructsion whether it's GPU or keyboard controller.
Of course. This is why the kernel driver filters the commands going to the GPU - the commands come from unprivileged applications (the Mesa driver is just a shared library) and should not be trusted. > Sounds like more > than a driver issue but a choice of driver issue. How are you going to > have it both ways without an ammount of care you have no time for? > > having interrupting access / watchdog is nice if your driver can do that > > Ben Hutchings wrote: [...] Don't top-post. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse.
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