drm causes kernel panic

[Steve Kargl]

On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 03:51:52PM -0400, Robert Noland wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-09-02 at 22:12 -0700, Steve Kargl wrote:
>> 
>> From dmesg:
>> 
>> vgapci0: <VGA display> port 0xb000-0xb0ff mem 0xfd000000-0xfdffffff,0
>> xfeaff000-0xfeafffff irq 18 at device 6.0 on pci3
>> drm0: <Rage XL> on vgapci0
>> info: [drm] Initialized mach64 2.0.0 20060718
> 
> Ok, I've found the problem... It is easy enough to fix your specific
> situation, but doing so will cause problems for other drivers...  Which
> is the reason that I made that change to begin with.  The big problem is
> that drm_pci_alloc gets called from a variety of places, some of which
> already hold locks while others don't.  We aren't allowed to hold locks
> over some of the bus_dma functions, so I have to go through all of these
> paths and figure out if it is generally safe to always drop the locks,
> or if I need to restructure the code somehow...  If you want a patch to
> just get you going temporarily, just let me know...
> 

I can disable Xorg's dri module.  When you have a patch you're happy
with, feel free to ping me for testing.

-- 
Steve