Re: [Bug #11875] radeonfb lockup in .28-rc (bisected)

[Andreas Schwab]

Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> On Mon, 2008-11-10 at 21:39 +0100, Andreas Schwab wrote:
>> Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>> 
>> > radeonfb: Fix accel problems with new imageblit hook
>> >
>> > Some radeon chips have issues with color expansion of pixmaps that
>> > aren't a multiple of 32 pixels wide. This works around it the same
>> > way X does by requesting the right pitch alignment from fbcon and
>> > then using the chip scissors to do clipping to the requested size.
>> 
>> Unfortunately this does not fix the suspend regression on PowerBook6,7.
>> Instead I have to use the workaround in
>> <http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=122515268301239&w=2>.
>
> Strange. The suspend problem happens also when X hasn't been launched at all ?

There seems to be some race involved here.  I cannot reproduce the
problem ATM.

Andreas.

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