Bug#550562: Blob firmware loader corrupts filesystem

2010-02-19 Thread Ben Wong
On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 8:10 AM, Ben Wong bugs.debian@wongs.net wrote: Is that all with the same radeon dri driver (from libgl1-mesa-dri)? WORKS  Ubuntu/karmic: DRI works perfectly  Linux-2.6.31.14.27  libgl1-mesa-dri-7.6.0-1ubuntu4 I just want to mention that, despite my results,

Bug#550562: Blob firmware loader corrupts filesystem

2010-02-07 Thread Julien Cristau
On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 00:02:14 -0500, Ben Wong wrote: Debian/stable (2.6.26): DRI works perfectly. Ubuntu/karmic (2.6.31): DRI works perfectly Debian/testing (2.6.32): DRI destroys file system Debian/testing using karmic's radeon driver: DRI destroys file system Is that all with the same

Bug#550562: Blob firmware loader corrupts filesystem

2010-02-05 Thread Ben Wong
Mesa 7.6 is not the problem.  I tested with a LiveCD (Mint Helena) that uses Mesa 7.6 and had no problems.  I also installed it to hard disk to make sure that that wasn't a factor.  Again, no problems. As a test, I've installed libgl1-mesa-dri and libgl1-mesa-glx from experimental -- To

Bug#550562: Blob firmware loader corrupts filesystem

2010-02-05 Thread Ben Wong
On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 12:05 PM, Ben Wong bugs.debian@wongs.net wrote: Mesa 7.6 is not the problem.  I tested with a LiveCD (Mint Helena) that uses Mesa 7.6 and had no problems.  I also installed it to hard disk to make sure that that wasn't a factor.  Again, no problems. As a test, I've

Bug#550562: Blob firmware loader corrupts filesystem

2010-02-05 Thread Ben Wong
I now believe radeon_cp.c is not the problem. In fact, the radeon DRM driver appears to be completely innocent. I'd appreciate any help or suggestions where to look next. Less short: Using alternate versions of radeon_cp.c and the entire radeon driver directory to compile the radeon.ko kernel

Bug#550562: Blob firmware loader corrupts filesystem

2010-02-05 Thread Ben Wong
On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 12:02 AM, Ben Wong bugs.debian@wongs.net wrote: Next I tried copying the entire driver/gpu/drm/radeon directory from Ubuntu and compiled that kernel module under Debian.  I was surprised to find that the bug still manifested using that kernel module as well. Just

Bug#550562: Blob firmware loader corrupts filesystem

2010-01-15 Thread Ben Wong
On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 5:47 AM, Ben Wong bugs.debian@wongs.net wrote: On 1/13/10, Julien Cristau jcris...@debian.org wrote: The reports seem to have started shortly after the upload of mesa 7.6 to unstable, so it's possible this is a long-standing kernel bug being triggered by a new bug

Bug#550562: Blob firmware loader corrupts filesystem

2010-01-14 Thread Ben Wong
On 1/13/10, Julien Cristau jcris...@debian.org wrote: On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 02:30:18 -0800, Ben Wong wrote: FWIW, http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=550977 was reported on r100, not r200. Good to know. Thanks. The reports seem to have started shortly after the upload of

Bug#550562: Blob firmware loader corrupts filesystem

2010-01-13 Thread Ben Wong
firmware when it is separated from the kernel.  (Could it be that the binary blob didn't get copied correctly when it was split?) I've compared them again - they're identical to the blobs previously embedded in the driver (except for byteswapping). That makes some sense, since DRI actually

Bug#550562: Blob firmware loader corrupts filesystem

2010-01-13 Thread Julien Cristau
On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 02:30:18 -0800, Ben Wong wrote: When you say it 'only affect systems that use the radeon/R200_cp.bin firmware' do you mean that you tested systems with other Radeon GPU versions and they were not affected, or that this problem appeared after the firmware was

Bug#550562: Blob firmware loader corrupts filesystem

2010-01-13 Thread Davide Bologna
On Wed, 2010-01-13 at 02:30 -0800, Ben Wong wrote: When you say it 'only affect systems that use the radeon/R200_cp.bin firmware' do you mean that you tested systems with other Radeon GPU versions and they were not affected, or that this problem appeared after the firmware was separated

Bug#550562: Blob firmware loader corrupts filesystem

2010-01-12 Thread Ben Wong
I have organized this bug report so that the most important information is at the top so that you can stop reading as soon as you get bored. This bug, #550562, should be reclassified as a critical bug and possibly merged with #560126. This bug causes severe filesystem corruption and catastrophic

Bug#550562: Blob firmware loader corrupts filesystem

2010-01-12 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Tue, 2010-01-12 at 04:30 -0800, Ben Wong wrote: I have organized this bug report so that the most important information is at the top so that you can stop reading as soon as you get bored. This bug, #550562, should be reclassified as a critical bug and possibly merged with #560126. I