From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Dave Airlie <airlied@gmail.com>
Cc: Dave Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
torvalds@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: SiS drm broken during 2.6.9-rc1-bk1
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 11:32:07 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050215103207.GA19866@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <21d7e99705021400266bcbc0f2@mail.gmail.com>
* Dave Airlie <airlied@gmail.com> wrote:
> > layout is the most likely patch to have broken things... I haven't
> > confirmed it is this particular patch yet, tomorrow I'll get some time to
> > do it ..
> >
>
> okay running client applications using
>
> setarch -L i386 glxgears
>
> makes them work.. I'll start looking for a bug in the the SIS client
> side library..
yeah. Look for 2GB assumptions - e.g. assumptions that pointers cast to
integer will be positive values, such as:
int i;
i = malloc(somesize);
if (i <= 0)
handle_alloc_failure();
here with the topdown layout you'd get a malloc 'failure'.
Ingo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-02-15 10:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-02-13 11:29 SiS drm broken during 2.6.9-rc1-bk1 Dave Airlie
2005-02-14 8:26 ` Dave Airlie
2005-02-15 10:32 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2005-06-26 23:07 ` Dave Airlie
2005-06-27 7:31 ` Ingo Molnar
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