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From: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
To: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>,
	"Wang, Rui Y" <rui.y.wang@intel.com>,
	Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>,
	"Clark, Rob" <robdclark@gmail.com>,
	"Roper, Matthew D" <matthew.d.roper@intel.com>,
	"Chen, Gong" <gong.chen@intel.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: drm/mgag200: doesn't work in panic context
Date: Sat, 27 Jun 2015 16:12:37 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150627141237.GE26543@pd.tnic> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKMK7uH_p3Dkt0xtSPaZwWuJvHFUVSahquzfuwR313qOOknfng@mail.gmail.com>

On Sat, Jun 27, 2015 at 03:52:56PM +0200, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> Hm, what do you mean by fixing this in the allocator? I've made some
> rough sketch of the problem space in
> http://www.x.org/wiki/DRMJanitors/ under "Make panic handling work".
> Problem is that the folks which know what to do (drm hackers) have
> zero incentive to fix it (since if you blow up a drm driver any kind
> of fbcon panic handling is hopeless anyway).

Ok, silly question: switching the GPU output to the simplest,
supported-by-all-GPUs mode before panicking is not that easy too, right?

Or does that mean, one needs to reinit GPU in order to even show
something...

Thanks.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

ECO tip #101: Trim your mails when you reply.
--

  reply	other threads:[~2015-06-27 14:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-06-26  7:55 drm/mgag200: doesn't work in panic context Rui Wang
2015-06-26  9:27 ` Daniel Vetter
2015-06-26 18:30   ` Luck, Tony
2015-06-27 13:52     ` Daniel Vetter
2015-06-27 14:12       ` Borislav Petkov [this message]
2015-06-27 17:56         ` Daniel Vetter
2015-06-29  8:09           ` Borislav Petkov
2015-06-29  9:25             ` Daniel Vetter
2015-06-29  9:42               ` Borislav Petkov
2015-06-29  9:58                 ` Daniel Vetter
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2015-06-30  2:53 Rui Wang
2015-06-30  6:36 ` Daniel Vetter
2015-06-30  7:23 Rui Wang
2015-06-30 15:23 ` Daniel Vetter
2015-07-01  7:26 Rui Wang
2015-07-01  9:59 ` Daniel Vetter

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