Re: 6.0-current panic: loading radeon module

From: M. Warner Losh (imp_at_bsdimp.com)
Date: 06/27/05

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    Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2005 17:55:10 -0600 (MDT)
To: eta@lclark.edu

    In message: <1119829345.3817.62.camel@leguin>
                Eric Anholt <eta@lclark.edu> writes:
    : On Sun, 2005-06-26 at 19:19 -0400, Martin Cracauer wrote:
    : > > OK, one more try, for everyone who's been having hangs/reboots on X
    : > > startup since April. Attached is a patch that will hopefully kill the
    : > > problem off.
    : >
    : > The candidate gets 100 points. It fixes the panic and hardware 3D
    : > worked for a few tests. No other side effects observed. Thanks so
    : > much!
    : >
    : > Out of curiosity, why does a 32 MB VRAM card try to map 128 MB?
    :
    : Do you only had 32MB? If so, oops on my part. Every other case of this
    : I had seen was 128MB, so I was just assuming. Basically the issue
    : (afaik) is that you're running out of KVA because framebuffers are large
    : and KVA isn't all that huge. pmap_mapdev was not designed to handle
    : failure to allocate memory, so it just paniced instead of returning NULL
    : (which wouldn't have helped us anyway, due to other issues).

    Yes. I believe that's correct...

    Warner
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