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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: benh@kernel.crashing.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	stable@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH]: radeonfb: Fix copyarea for R300 and later.
Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2008 08:43:29 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080806084329.9d7e6d50.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080806.003536.204220123.davem@davemloft.net>

On Wed, 06 Aug 2008 00:35:36 -0700 (PDT) David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> wrote:

> [ Andrew/Ben, this fixes the bootup hang we were talking about
>   the other day. ]
> 
> radeonfb: Fix copyarea for R300 and later.
> 
> For current chips we need to make sure the DSTCACHE_CTLSTAT and
> WAIT_UNTIL registers are properly setup.  If not, a sequence of
> copyarea operations can result in the 2D raster processor
> hanging.

Neato.  This can be backported to -stable without also backporting your
recent radeon-misc-corrections.patch, I assume?


  reply	other threads:[~2008-08-06 15:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-08-06  7:35 [PATCH]: radeonfb: Fix copyarea for R300 and later David Miller
2008-08-06 15:43 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2008-08-06 21:19   ` David Miller
2008-08-06 22:08     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-08-07  2:06     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-08-07  5:52       ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-08-07 11:22         ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2008-08-07 21:24           ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-08-07  8:52     ` [PATCH] radeonfb: Fix engine hangs and cache flushing (v2) Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-08-06 22:09   ` [PATCH]: radeonfb: Fix copyarea for R300 and later Benjamin Herrenschmidt

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