Re: 2.6.16-rc3: more regressions

[Gerhard Mack <gmack@innerfire.net>]

On Mon, 13 Feb 2006, Adrian Bunk wrote:

> Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2006 19:34:45 +0100
> From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
> To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
> Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
>     Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
>     Mauro Tassinari <mtassinari@cmanet.it>, airlied@linux.ie,
>     dri-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: 2.6.16-rc3: more regressions
> 
> On Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 10:16:59AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > On Mon, 13 Feb 2006, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > > 
> > > DaveA, I'll apply this for now. Comments?
> > 
> > Btw, the fact that Mauro has the same exact PCI ID (well, lspci stupidly 
> > suppresses the ID entirely, but the string seems to match the one that 
> > Dave Jones reports) may be unrelated.
> 
> Dave's patch removes the entry for the card with the 0x5b60.
> 
> According to his bug report, Mauro has a Radeon X300SE that should 
> have the 0x5b70 according to pci.ids from pciutils and that doesn't seem 
> to be claimed by the DRM driver (and the dmesg from the bug report 
> confirms that the radeon DRM driver didn't claim to be responsible for 
> this card).
> 
> > DaveJ (or Mauro): since you can test this, can you test having that ID 
> > there but _without_ the other changes to drm in -rc1?
> > 
> > Ie was it the addition of that particular ID, or are the other radeon
> > driver changes (which haven't had as much testing) perhaps the culprit?
> > 
> > I realize that without the ID, that card would never have been tested 
> > anyway, but the point being that plain 2.6.15 with _just_ that ID added 
> > has at least gotten more testing on other (similar) chips. So before I 
> > revert that particular ID, it would be nice to know that it was broken 
> > even with the previous radeon driver state.
> 
> The ID removed by Dave's patch is the only ID listed for an RV370 chips 
> (the other RV370's aren't listed in the radeon DRM driver).
> 
> I suspect Dave and Mauro having unrelated problems.
> 
> > 		Linus
> 
> cu
> Adrian

The X300 has two pci ids:
0000:05:00.0 0300: 1002:5b60
0000:05:00.1 0380: 1002:5b70

0000:05:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV370 5B60 
[Radeon X300 (PCIE)]
0000:05:00.1 Display controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV370 [Radeon 
X300SE]

	Gerhard


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