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From: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
To: Keith Packard <keithp@keithp.com>, Matthias Hopf <mhopf@suse.de>
Cc: intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Dont use hardware acceleration on Sandybridge rev 07 hardware or earlier.
Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2010 09:03:05 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5b55a1$inmn1b@fmsmga002.fm.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <yunwro7s4wp.fsf@aiko.keithp.com>


On Sat, 20 Nov 2010 19:59:34 -0800, Keith Packard <keithp@keithp.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 20 Nov 2010 16:17:40 +0100, Matthias Hopf <mhopf@suse.de> wrote:
> 
> > I know, I know. The patch is (one of) the results of the Novell-HP-Intel
> > workshop in Taipei this week. It turned out that rev07 is too unstable.
> > Keith and Eric can probably comment on this. Better than I can.
> 
> There's a work-around in the kernel for pre rev-8 hardware that ensures
> every time the blt ring is advanced by the CPU, the first command
> executes a batch buffer. So the hardware is obviously quite broken.
> 
> This workaround doesn't work perfectly, and the GPU will still lock up
> when executing commands out of the blt ring from time to time. As pre
> rev-8 hardware is all pre-production, the workarounds should be removed
> From the driver and all acceleration disabled.

Ah ha! If it's the BLT workaround, then yes that can die in a very hot
fire. Thanks for the explanation.
-Chris

-- 
Chris Wilson, Intel Open Source Technology Centre

  reply	other threads:[~2010-11-21  9:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-11-19  3:29 [PATCH] Don't use hardware acceleration on Sandybridge rev 07 hardware or earlier Matthias Hopf
2010-11-19 21:47 ` [PATCH] Dont " Chris Wilson
2010-11-20 15:17   ` Matthias Hopf
2010-11-21  3:59     ` Keith Packard
2010-11-21  9:03       ` Chris Wilson [this message]
2010-11-24  3:13       ` Zou, Nanhai
2010-12-05 11:44         ` Chris Wilson

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