xorg-devel and ati [Was: Kernel Intel GPU driver and ports]

Andriy Gapon avg at FreeBSD.org
Sat Jul 30 20:21:05 UTC 2011


on 28/07/2011 17:49 Andriy Gapon said the following:
> on 28/07/2011 17:10 Andriy Gapon said the following:
>> I just would like to report that with ports from the experimental x11 repository
>> everything still works fine for me[*] with radeon hardware and driver, including
>> OpenGL stuff (glxgears, KDE4 whistles and bells).
>>
>> [*] It's better to say that there are no regressions as the following
>> long-standing bugs still affect me:
>>
>> 1. https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28181
>> I will submit my local patch against xorg-server-1.10.3 sources a little bit later.
> 
> http://people.freebsd.org/~avg/bug28181.server10.4.diff
> 
> This patch does prevent the crash but I am not sure if it completely correct.
> Most of all I am not sure if the reference counting doesn't introduce any memory
> leaks.

I reduced the patch to:
http://people.freebsd.org/~avg/bug28181.server10.6.diff
The new patch still fixes the crash and does not seem to have the same
potential for resource leaks as the previous patch.

-- 
Andriy Gapon


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