From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ben Skeggs Subject: Re: gpu lockup detection and fallback to noaccel Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2011 10:17:02 +1000 Message-ID: <1308529026.2464.1.camel@nisroch> References: <20110614211859.GA3687@joi.lan> <1308119242.8806.1.camel@maxim-laptop> <20110619222554.GI4771@joi.lan> Reply-To: skeggsb-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20110619222554.GI4771-OI9uyE9O0yo@public.gmane.org> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: nouveau-bounces+gcfxn-nouveau=m.gmane.org-PD4FTy7X32lNgt0PjOBp9y5qC8QIuHrW@public.gmane.org Errors-To: nouveau-bounces+gcfxn-nouveau=m.gmane.org-PD4FTy7X32lNgt0PjOBp9y5qC8QIuHrW@public.gmane.org To: Marcin Slusarz Cc: nouveau-PD4FTy7X32lNgt0PjOBp9y5qC8QIuHrW@public.gmane.org List-Id: nouveau.vger.kernel.org On Mon, 2011-06-20 at 00:25 +0200, Marcin Slusarz wrote: > On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 09:27:22AM +0300, Maxim Levitsky wrote: > > On Tue, 2011-06-14 at 23:18 +0200, Marcin Slusarz wrote: > > > Hi > > > > > > I have a very rough patchset which adds support for GPU lockup detection and fallback > > > to (more or less) noaccel to xf86-video-nouveau. > > > > > > As the patches are only a proof of concept and needs a lot of work, I would like > > > to know first if this is a desired feature - I don't want to spend a couple of days > > > on patches which will be ignored or rejected with a reason "we don't need it". > > > > > > So, what do you think? > > > > Will love it! I have unexplained hangs here, so maybe I could debug them > > further with this. > > > > Thanks for encouragement. But... > > I was hoping for reponse from someone with commit access. I really really hate wasting > time, so I'm not going to finish it. Oh well, I guess it's not that important as I thought. Hey, I'd be interested in seeing the approach you've taken at least. I'm not convinced this is something we want exactly, my fear is that a lot of bugs will end up covered over with people not noticing. But, lets see :) Ben. > > Marcin > _______________________________________________ > Nouveau mailing list > Nouveau-PD4FTy7X32lNgt0PjOBp9y5qC8QIuHrW@public.gmane.org > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/nouveau