From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753887AbYIBFNr (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Sep 2008 01:13:47 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751475AbYIBFNj (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Sep 2008 01:13:39 -0400 Received: from vms173001pub.verizon.net ([206.46.173.1]:53846 "EHLO vms173001pub.verizon.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750984AbYIBFNi (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Sep 2008 01:13:38 -0400 Date: Tue, 02 Sep 2008 01:13:23 -0400 From: Gene Heskett Subject: Re: Linux-2.6.27-rc5, drm errors in log In-reply-to: <3f9a31f40809010951p15ed7359w48d2b18adf0ca20f@mail.gmail.com> To: "Jaswinder Singh" Cc: "Dave Airlie" , "Linux Kernel" Message-id: <200809020113.24058.gene.heskett@gmail.com> Organization: Organization? very little MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Content-disposition: inline References: <898503EB1E15BA4F944D1BE69D55AAC8AB540A@storexmb1.amd.com> <200808310655.45464.gene.heskett@gmail.com> <3f9a31f40809010951p15ed7359w48d2b18adf0ca20f@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: KMail/1.9.9 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Monday 01 September 2008, Jaswinder Singh wrote: >Hello Gene, > >On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 6:55 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: >> Yes I can, but how do I get that specific patch? Or is that the git # for >> the patch I first applied to -rc2, which added the firmware/radeon stuff? >> I'm familiar with patch, but not on a first name basis with git, sorry. >> >> So I'm going to do a bisect, my style. I will rebuild, starting with >> -rc3, using only the -rcX patch and the firmware addition patch, which >> applied to -rc3 as follows: >> now applying [PATCH]radeon_cp-use-request_firmware > >This patch is not included in 2.6.27-rc5. Please do not mix this patch >now, first resolve your problem and if you want then you can add this >patch above of it. > I see. However, since the stuff in /lib/firmware is already there from previous builds that did include this patch, and I didn't delete it, I noted that the 2.6.27-rc5 I built last night, without that patch, still loaded the r200 microcode according to the messages log, and dmesg. From dmesg: [root@coyote /]# dmesg|grep drm [ 1.389274] [drm] Initialized drm 1.1.0 20060810 [ 1.389707] [drm] Initialized radeon 1.29.0 20080528 on minor 0 [ 85.920881] [drm] Setting GART location based on new memory map [ 85.920894] [drm] Loading R200 Microcode [ 85.920944] [drm] writeback test succeeded in 1 usecs >Thank you, > >Jaswinder Singh. Thank you! -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Good leaders being scarce, following yourself is allowed.