Recent kernel changes crashing with X (Radeon HD 6310)

[kyuupichan]

Francois - I can confirm this cured the issue for me and seems good so far.

Thanks both, and for your responsiveness!

Neil.

---- On Thu, 28 May 2015 14:51:53 +0900 Francois Tigeot<ftigeot at wolfpond.org> wrote ---- 
 > Francois Tigeot wrote: 
 > > kyuupichan wrote: 
 > >> Very recent work has caused X to no longer load for me.  Perhaps 
 > >> Francois' work - I think my 
 > >> hardware uses the driver(s) he's been working on. 
 > >> 
 > >> A kernel built from April 24 morning GMT sources works fine for me. 
 > >> A kernel built from May 19 morning GMT sources seems to crash the 
 > >> kernel during X startup, as 
 > >> the screen is blanked and nothing appears, and a remote SSH session 
 > >> freezes.  I have retried about 
 > >> 4 times but cannot get an uncorrupted Xorg.log written to disk with 
 > >> the May 19 kernel. 
 > >> 
 > >> The old kernel seems to be fine with the latest "world". 
 > > 
 > > I had to modify the generic drm code to make the drm/i915 update to 
 > > Linux 3.14 succeed. 
 > > 
 > > The radeon driver is most likely unhappy about some part of these 
 > > changes; I'll try to investigate the problem during the next few days. 
 >  
 > Zrj wrote a fix for the radeon regression. It has now been pushed to master: 
 >  
 > http://gitweb.dragonflybsd.org/dragonfly.git/commitdiff/ddea3d8d5fd5148882180ff375c0c9af013c1399 
 >  
 > --  
 > Francois Tigeot 
 >