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From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Dave Airlie <airlied@gmail.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
	airlied@linux.ie, dri-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5]: drm: ati_pcigart: Do not access I/O MEM space using  pointer derefs.
Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2009 20:09:24 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1234602564.26036.84.camel@pasglop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <21d7e9970902132342k1a756475t91ede4baf571c563@mail.gmail.com>


> The only think I can think to do is use a surface instead of the
> aperture swappers
> and make the surface cover all the VRAM except the GART table which is
> at the end.

Why not use a surface to cover the GART ? At least this would ensure a
known swapper setting for it. 

> That's interesting, it could explain why things never work again after a reset
> or at least proceed to hang straight away.

No shit :-)

Cheers,
Ben.



  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-02-14  9:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-02-12 10:15 [PATCH 1/5]: drm: ati_pcigart: Do not access I/O MEM space using pointer derefs David Miller
2009-02-12 10:35 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2009-02-12 11:09   ` David Miller
2009-02-12 11:23     ` Dave Airlie
2009-02-12 22:17       ` David Miller
2009-02-12 21:26     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2009-02-12 21:29       ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2009-02-14  6:09   ` David Miller
2009-02-14  7:42     ` Dave Airlie
2009-02-14  8:58       ` David Miller
2009-02-14  9:09       ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2009-02-14  9:07     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2009-02-14  9:11       ` David Miller
2009-02-14  9:51         ` David Miller

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