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
>
>

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