On Tue, 19 Jul 2011 at 14:41:07 +0200, Frank van Maarseveen wrote: > When booting 2.6.39.3 with radeon and KMS enabled the boot messages > stop at some point (clocksource switching to TSC or something) and > about 60 seconds later the screen turns into a noise pattern with some > irregularities on top (i.e. crash). > > This happens when the radeon driver is built-in. > > This can be triggered too when it is a module by "insmod radeon.ko" > when there is no provision to automatically load firmware (e.g via > /sbin/hotplug). The insmod hangs for `cat /sys/class/firmware/timeout` > seconds (default 60) and after that it crashes with identical > symptoms. When /sbin/hotplug is present for loading firmware > (radeon/RV620_pfp.bin, radeon/RV620_me.bin, radeon/R600_rlc.bin in this > case) then all goes well. I think you want to have CONFIG_FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL set to not depend on userspace to load firmware. Can you provide dmesg of this crash? > Because of this it is not possible to use a built-in radeon driver with > KMS enabled. > > > lspci -vv: > > 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV620 LE [Radeon HD 3450] (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) > Subsystem: Dell Device 0342 > Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx- > Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx- > Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 64 bytes > Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 16 > Region 0: Memory at e0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M] > Region 2: Memory at f7df0000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K] > Region 4: I/O ports at dc00 [size=256] > Expansion ROM at f7e00000 [disabled] [size=128K] > Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 3 > Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1+ D2+ AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-) > Status: D0 NoSoftRst- PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME- > Capabilities: [58] Express (v2) Legacy Endpoint, MSI 00 > DevCap: MaxPayload 128 bytes, PhantFunc 0, Latency L0s <4us, L1 unlimited > ExtTag+ AttnBtn- AttnInd- PwrInd- RBE+ FLReset- > DevCtl: Report errors: Correctable- Non-Fatal+ Fatal+ Unsupported- > RlxdOrd+ ExtTag+ PhantFunc- AuxPwr- NoSnoop+ > MaxPayload 128 bytes, MaxReadReq 128 bytes > DevSta: CorrErr- UncorrErr- FatalErr- UnsuppReq- AuxPwr- TransPend- > LnkCap: Port #0, Speed 2.5GT/s, Width x16, ASPM L0s L1, Latency L0 <64ns, L1 <1us > ClockPM- Surprise- LLActRep- BwNot- > LnkCtl: ASPM Disabled; RCB 64 bytes Disabled- Retrain- CommClk+ > ExtSynch- ClockPM- AutWidDis- BWInt- AutBWInt- > LnkSta: Speed 2.5GT/s, Width x16, TrErr- Train- SlotClk+ DLActive- BWMgmt- ABWMgmt- > DevCap2: Completion Timeout: Not Supported, TimeoutDis- > DevCtl2: Completion Timeout: 50us to 50ms, TimeoutDis- > LnkCtl2: Target Link Speed: 2.5GT/s, EnterCompliance- SpeedDis-, Selectable De-emphasis: -6dB > Transmit Margin: Normal Operating Range, EnterModifiedCompliance- ComplianceSOS- > Compliance De-emphasis: -6dB > LnkSta2: Current De-emphasis Level: -6dB > Capabilities: [a0] MSI: Enable- Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+ > Address: 0000000000000000 Data: 0000 > Capabilities: [100 v1] Vendor Specific Information: ID=0001 Rev=1 Len=010 <?> > Kernel driver in use: radeon > _______________________________________________ dri-devel mailing list dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel
