Re: [PATCH 1/5]: drm: ati_pcigart: Do not access I/O MEM spaceusing pointer derefs.

From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt
Date: Sat Feb 14 2009 - 04:09:55 EST



> The only think I can think to do is use a surface instead of the
> aperture swappers
> and make the surface cover all the VRAM except the GART table which is
> at the end.

Why not use a surface to cover the GART ? At least this would ensure a
known swapper setting for it.

> That's interesting, it could explain why things never work again after a reset
> or at least proceed to hang straight away.

No shit :-)

Cheers,
Ben.


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