Re: Xen and DRM

[Étienne <etienne.pub%magickarpet.org@localhost>]

On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 02:57:46PM +0100, Manuel Bouyer wrote:

> > I've tried to compile a Dom0 kernel that includes the radeondrm device,
> > for an amd64 running 5.0.1. The system then boots nicely on it, up to
> > the moment X Window is ran, where a crash and reboot occurs. Am I trying
> > to do something unsupported ?
> 
> I'm not familiar with this part of the kernel, but won't a DRM device
> try to access the MTRR registers ? If so that's something
> unsupported.

It does. However, I have just realised that radeon(4) lets me disable
hardware acceleration, and that gets me rid of the crash. I can then
use Xv extension (for example) on my Xen machine.

Thanks.

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Étienne