Re: PowerPC radeon KMS - is it possible?

["Michel Dänzer" <michel@daenzer.net>]

On Mit, 2012-04-18 at 09:54 +0200, Andreas Schwab wrote:=20
> Michel D=C3=A4nzer <michel@daenzer.net> writes:
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> > Probably not (AGP is flaky in general, but in particular with older
> > UniNorth bridges), but it might be interesting to see some kernel outpu=
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> > from booting without agpmode=3D-1. If you can't get it via ssh, maybe y=
ou
> > can via netconsole or so.
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> While logging into KDE:
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> radeon 0000:00:10.0: GPU lockup CP stall for more than 10064msec
> GPU lockup (waiting for 0x000003EE last fence id 0x000003ED)
> radeon: wait for empty RBBM fifo failed ! Bad things might happen.
> Failed to wait GUI idle while programming pipes. Bad things might happen.
> radeon 0000:00:10.0: (r300_asic_reset:414) RBBM_STATUS=3D0x8802C137
> radeon 0000:00:10.0: (r300_asic_reset:433) RBBM_STATUS=3D0x8802C137
> radeon 0000:00:10.0: (r300_asic_reset:445) RBBM_STATUS=3D0x8802C137
> radeon 0000:00:10.0: GPU reset succeed
> radeon 0000:00:10.0: GPU reset succeed
> radeon 0000:00:10.0: (r300_asic_reset:414) RBBM_STATUS=3D0x8802C137
> radeon 0000:00:10.0: (r300_asic_reset:433) RBBM_STATUS=3D0x8802C137
> radeon 0000:00:10.0: (r300_asic_reset:445) RBBM_STATUS=3D0x8802C137
> radeon 0000:00:10.0: GPU reset succeed
> radeon: wait for empty RBBM fifo failed ! Bad things might happen.
> Failed to wait GUI idle while programming pipes. Bad things might happen.

That's even with agpmode=3D1?

Note that I'm interested in seeing the full dmesg or at least all
agp/drm/radeon related messages.


> After that is is dead.

The whole machine? That's probably due to something going wrong (e.g. an
MCE) while trying to reset the GPU. I fixed one such problem recently,
but it's still not as reliable as on x86 unfortunately.

> GPU lockup appears to be a common problem with the radeon driver.

It's what happens when anything goes wrong with the GPU. If it doesn't
happen with agpmode=3D-1, it's probably an AGP related coherency issue.


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