linux-kernel - Re: [git pull] drm: previous pull req + 1.

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Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.00.0906212340440.20307@skynet.skynet.ie>
Date:	Sun, 21 Jun 2009 23:41:47 +0100 (IST)
From:	Dave Airlie <airlied@...ux.ie>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
cc:	Andy Lutomirski <luto@....edu>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	dri-devel@...ts.sf.net
Subject: Re: [git pull] drm: previous pull req + 1.

> 
> 
> On Sun, 21 Jun 2009, Dave Airlie wrote:
> > > 
> > > I tried this tree (specifically, a merge of Linus' fb20871 this tree) on
> > > Fedora 11 with modesetting enabled on an integrated Radeon 2100, and plymouthd
> > > crashes immediately with a corrupt page table.  Photo attached.  After the
> > > crash, bootup stops, although ctrl-alt-del works.
> > 
> > You need a different userspace, -ati from koji in F11 should do it.
> 
> Dave - no amount of userspace differences make a corrupted page table 
> acceptable. 

I was original responding to a line I saw in his dmesg (which was about an 
ioctl not being available, I only got to parsing the crash later.

 
> This needs to be fixed. No excuses. Kernel crashes are never an issue of 
> "you used the wrong user space".

Agreed, and we block old userspaces running on KMS kernels (at least 
trying to use DRI) and I thought that was what he was seeing.

Dave.

> 
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