Re: [Regression] [Radeon] Stream command failures and render problemsin Evergreen (Radeon HD 5600) in kernel 3.4

From: Brian Gitonga Marete
Date: Mon Jun 11 2012 - 17:57:39 EST


On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 9:28 PM, Brian Gitonga Marete
<marete@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 5:28 PM, Dave Airlie <airlied@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 12:24 PM, Brian Gitonga Marete
>> <marete@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> On Sat, Jun 9, 2012 at 7:33 PM, Brian Gitonga Marete <marete@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>> On Sat, Jun 9, 2012 at 7:29 PM, Dave Airlie <airlied@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> OK. I actually hadn't gotten around to testing yet. Will do so later
>>>>>> today. About libdrm, should I test against git or the Ubuntu version?
>>>>>
>>>>> The Ubuntu version please.
>>>>
>>>> OK.Will report results in a couple of hours :)
>>>
>>> Hello. Got around to this after some delay and after applying v3 of
>>> them patch to 3.4, where it applied cleanly, I get this during build:
>>>
>>> drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/evergreen_cs.c: In function
>>> ‘evergreen_cs_track_validate_cb’:
>>> drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/evergreen_cs.c:447:28: error: request for
>>> member ‘ptr’ in something not a structure or union
>>
>> Can you change the -> to a . on that line
>
> Actually, the other way around :) Compilation has now passed that
> point and will report on test results.
>
>
> --
> Brian Gitonga Marete
> Toshnix Systems - http://toshnix.com

Hello. I am happy to report that v3 of Jerome's patch works and fixes
the regressions. I have tested 3.4 with the patch against Ubuntu's
stock drm, radeon and mesa-glx packages.

A quick reminder that the patch needs the small fix detailed in my
exchange with David above.

Thanks very much to Jerome and David!

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Brian Gitonga Marete
Toshnix Systems - http://toshnix.com
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