2010/2/1 Stephane Marchesin <stephane.marche...@gmail.com>: > If an ia64 machine lockups, it will usually store an MCA telling you > about why it locked/where in the code this happened. > This is how I got ia64 DRI going a bunch of years ago. For what it's > worth, most of the bugs were: > - pci resources casted to 32 bit in the DRM > - some 32 bit adresses but that got fixed as a side effect of us > having x86_64 supported now > - large (32 or 64 bit) writes to I/O areas (should be all 8 bit, the > ia64 crashes otherwise) either from the kernel or from user space > > Really to track those the MCA errors proved extremely useful. Usually > they carry a pci adress and all...
Just to understand: in the present case, I've been told that I'm experiencing GPU lockups. I can still remote log in to the station and kill the offending application. So, I imagine that's different than ia64 lockup, isn't it? Will an MCA event thus be triggered? Émeric ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Planet: dedicated and managed hosting, cloud storage, colocation Stay online with enterprise data centers and the best network in the business Choose flexible plans and management services without long-term contracts Personal 24x7 support from experience hosting pros just a phone call away. http://p.sf.net/sfu/theplanet-com -- _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list Dri-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
