On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 8:15 AM, Dave Airlie <airlied@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, 2010-09-29 at 17:47 +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote: >> The i810 and i830 drivers are the only hardware drivers that >> still use the BKL without anyone volunteering to fix them. > > The problem is the userspace interface is badly designed and ABI, so > fixing these without the hw is messy, we know people have the hardware > because it breaks they still give out, we don't know anyone who cares > enough to fix it at this point in time. > >> >> The hardware is rather old and typically used on non-SMP >> systems. Mark them as BROKEN_ON_SMP and remove the BKL >> now so that people can still use the driver once the BKL >> is entirely gone. > > You cannot get an SMP system with i810 or i830 support hardware in it, > however no distro ships UP kernels anymore they all ship SMP kernels > that hotplug/patch the second CPU. So the thing is although technically > these drivers are broken on SMP, they won't ever get run in SMP mode on > a combined UP/SMP kernel, and I'm not really sure BROKEN_ON_SMP takes > care of this. Okay so you can get a hyper-threaded 845 I've been informed, suck. But anyways anyone using those GPUs is most likely running the i915 driver. i810 is the only one I really care about as it has no equiv. Dave. _______________________________________________ dri-devel mailing list dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel
