Re: [PATCH 00/23] kill drm cruft with fire

[Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch>]

On Wed, Dec 07, 2011 at 02:19:39PM +0000, James Simmons wrote:
> 
> > > >> Testing this on via would be awesome! Iirc I haven't changed anything in
> > > >> the via specific patches, but if it's more convenient you can also
> > > >> directly test my branch:
> > > >>
> > > >> http://cgit.freedesktop.org/~danvet/drm/log/?h=kill-with-fire
> > > >
> > > > Okay I tried the patches and it locked up the openchrome X server. I'm
> > > > going to try your branch tonight to see if it makes any difference. If it
> > > > still fails I will have to track down what the problem is.
> > >
> > > If you can bisect the issue, that would be awesome. Meanwhile my sis
> > > card arrived, so I'm hopefully get around to test that part of the
> > > series rsn. I'm traveling atm though, so response time will suffer a
> > > bit.
> > 
> > Any updates on testing results?
> 
> Yes I do. I'm using the patches you posted. Patches 1 to 10 work with no 
> problems. Ist patch 11 that breaks the openchrome xorg driver. Have to 
> do some digging to find the exact problem.

Thanks a lot for digging through these patches. As you've noted in patch
11, I don't set release_idlelock anywhere which results in the via driver
deadlocking when clients close. The same holds for the equivalent sis
patch. Updated patch series pushed to my kill-with-fire branch. Please
test and yell at me if it's still broken.

Yours, Daniel
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