Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2020 11:34:40 +0200 From: Andrea Venturoli <ml@netfence.it> To: Scott Bennett <bennett@sdf.org> Cc: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: xf86-video-ati-legacy port status Message-ID: <14a0ce02-6c8c-e9e6-2e9f-61069e177459@netfence.it> In-Reply-To: <202006020912.0529C4Hg025076@sdf.org> References: <20200527172918.GA874@doom.homeunix.org> <ab0ff124-14ca-83a8-8643-65a0a819cf42@freebsd.org> <6675586c-dae2-39c6-2aba-bd66511d2d72@netfence.it> <20200601211504.72eab297bca88aacb165b21c@bidouilliste.com> <a02dd18b-a14e-700b-d7b6-b5ba3954bcd6@netfence.it> <202006020912.0529C4Hg025076@sdf.org>
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On 2020-06-02 11:12, Scott Bennett wrote: >> https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-x11/2020-May/025989.html > Perhaps you posted your panic messages, and I missed them, Link is above. > but I've > been wondering whether you actually get a panic screen with all sorts of > kernel panic messages, Yes: the system drops into DDB. > or do you instead get a hard BIOS reset No. > in an attempt by the DRM driver to reboot your system? Here I'm not so sure... I guess not, since what I get is "panic: page fault". > The reason I ask is that > the latter is what happens when running xorg on a Radeon HD 5770, and after > a reboot I can see the final messages that were written to /var/log/messages > just before the reset. Those messages indicated that the GPU had crashed > (bug #1). The improper response by the DRM driver is bug #2/design flaw #1, > depending upon how you view such things, although a design document might > well resolve which sort of error was made. I don't seem to follow you here. Are those # references to some bug list? Where? bye & Thanks av.help
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