On Tue, 2009-07-21 at 05:54 -0700, Steven Noonan wrote:
> 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.

It's in a branch, r6xx kernel development started their. What are still
developed in this repo is libdrm ie nothings under shared-core or
linux-core (dunno about bsd stuff)

Cheers,
Jerome


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