From: Giuseppe Bilotta <bilotta78@hotpop.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] Re: [PATCH] fbdev: Fix IO access in rivafb
Date: Tue, 9 Nov 2004 00:07:58 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <MPG.1bfa1abaf653d37c98970a@news.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1099950722.10262.166.camel@gaston>
Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-11-08 at 17:06 +0800, Antonino A. Daplas wrote:
>
> >
> > How about this patch? This is almost the original macro in riva_hw.h,
> > with the __force annotation.
>
> I don't like it neither. It lacks barriers. the rivafb driver
> notoriously lacks barriers, except in a few places where it was so bad
> that it actually broke all the time, where we added some. This
> originates from the X "nv" driver written by Mark Vojkovich who didn't
> want to hear about barriers for perfs reasons I think.
Could this be the reason why in 2.6.7 I get solid lockups when
switching to nv-driven X and rivafb-driven console? Is there
something I could test to see if this is the reason?
--
Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta
Can't you see
It all makes perfect sense
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(Roger Waters)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-11-08 23:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2004-11-08 5:57 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-11-08 8:33 ` [Linux-fbdev-devel] " Antonino A. Daplas
2004-11-08 21:50 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-11-08 22:18 ` Antonino A. Daplas
2004-11-08 9:06 ` Antonino A. Daplas
2004-11-08 9:55 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2004-11-08 15:21 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-11-08 20:02 ` Antonino A. Daplas
2004-11-08 20:13 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-11-08 22:08 ` Antonino A. Daplas
2004-11-08 22:25 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-11-12 12:51 ` Guido Guenther
2004-11-12 16:01 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-11-12 19:18 ` Guido Guenther
2004-11-12 19:32 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-11-13 12:57 ` Guido Guenther
2004-11-13 1:39 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-11-13 11:22 ` Guido Guenther
2004-11-13 12:00 ` Antonino A. Daplas
2004-11-13 13:02 ` Guido Guenther
2004-11-13 18:00 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-11-13 21:29 ` Antonino A. Daplas
2004-11-13 22:54 ` Guido Guenther
2004-11-13 23:52 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-11-13 23:49 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-11-13 12:20 ` Yasushi SHOJI
2004-11-19 1:48 ` readl/writel: swap or not to swap (was: [PATCH] fbdev: Fix IO access in rivafb) Yasushi SHOJI
2004-11-19 4:09 ` readl/writel: swap or not to swap Jeff Garzik
2004-11-19 7:24 ` Yasushi SHOJI
2004-11-08 21:52 ` [Linux-fbdev-devel] Re: [PATCH] fbdev: Fix IO access in rivafb Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-11-08 23:07 ` Giuseppe Bilotta [this message]
2004-11-13 23:22 ` Guido Guenther
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