Re: X-freeze after clflush changes [Was: 2.6.23-rc6-mm1]

["Dave Airlie" <airlied@gmail.com>]

> > But now I'm talking about another issue -- a regression since rc4-mm1, where X
> > server is unable to bind agp memory (those x logs above). The clflush issue has
> > solved andi in
> > http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/9/19/334
> > recently
>
> Tried that, my laptop still bricks the instant X starts up and the NVidia driver
> tries to initialize.  Not even sysrq-foo works. Time to power-cycle.
>

I'd expect the binary to be doing something stupid with it's flushing
and relying on the kernel to do something it no longer does.. so this
is most likely a case of not fixable..

Dave.
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