Re: [Bug #11875] radeonfb lockup in .28-rc (bisected)

Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-11-10T21:53:55Z

On Mon, 2008-11-10 at 21:39 +0100, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> writes:
>
> > radeonfb: Fix accel problems with new imageblit hook
> >
> > Some radeon chips have issues with color expansion of pixmaps that
> > aren't a multiple of 32 pixels wide. This works around it the same
> > way X does by requesting the right pitch alignment from fbcon and
> > then using the chip scissors to do clipping to the requested size.
>
> Unfortunately this does not fix the suspend regression on PowerBook6,7.
> Instead I have to use the workaround in
> <http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=122515268301239&w=2>.

Strange. The suspend problem happens also when X hasn't been launched at all ?

Ben.