On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 5:41 AM, Jerome Glisse<gli...@freedesktop.org> wrote: > On Tue, 2009-07-21 at 04:00 -0700, Steven Noonan wrote: >> On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 3:53 AM, Steven Noonan<ste...@uplinklabs.net> wrote: >> > On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 3:45 AM, Dave Airlie<airl...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> >> >>> I'm getting a kernel panic when trying to run the latest git version >> >>> of drm. I built it following the instructions from here: >> >>> http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/Building >> >>> >> >>> It's a very very predictable panic. Log in, 'startx', exit X11, and >> >>> then after a couple seconds, panic. >> >>> >> >>> I unfortunately can't get a text version of the panic log, but I do >> >>> have a photo: http://twitpic.com/b2yva >> >>> >> >>> Any ideas? More importantly, am I excluding any important information >> >>> to help debug the issue? >> >>> >> >> >> >> Don't use the kernel modules from that tree, use whatever came with the >> >> kernel. >> >> >> >> Dave. >> > >> > Okay, well, I've almost debugged it anyway. I'll have a couple patches >> > for you in less than a half hour. >> > >> >> One patch submitted. And I can't figure out why, but the timer that is >> supposed to be deleted by drm_vblank_cleanup() isn't getting >> destroyed. And once the timer fires, the device is already >> invalidated, and it oopses in radeon_get_vblank_counter(). The obvious >> temporary solution is a check whether dev->mmio is a valid pointer, >> and if not, return -EINVAL. But obviously, fixing the timer is more >> ideal. >> >> - Steven. > > > Don't bother fixing anythings in this code, it should be considered dead > and we should delete it. I am all for creating libdrm and broke build of > drm so that people stop trying build it. Something like a big message > when someone type make.
Alright, I'm wondering why it even has commits going to it if it's "dead". Most recent commit was only 6 days ago. > > Use Linus tree if you want lastest bits, bugs you are facing are already > corrected their. > > Cheers, > Jerome > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge This is your chance to win up to $100,000 in prizes! For a limited time, vendors submitting new applications to BlackBerry App World(TM) will have the opportunity to enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge. See full prize details at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/Challenge -- _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list Dri-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel