Comment # 11
on bug 78297
from Christian König
(In reply to comment #10) > (In reply to comment #9) > > That's the problem: > > > > [ 1.714537] [drm] Detected VRAM RAM=1024M, BAR=128M > > > > Your PCI BAR is smaller than usually, for a REDWOOD 256M are normal. Going > > to hack up a patch for this. > > Nice to hear! > But in these cases where there's not enough memory, shouldn't the vdpau > driver to fail returning an error (making the client to fallback to software > rendering), instead of crashing? It's not the VDPAU driver that's failing here, it's the kernel. When the kernel can't place a buffer into visible VRAM the buffer should be moved into GART instead for CPU access. But instead we just return a SIGBUS to the application effectively crashing it.
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