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RE: [Xen-devel] Failure to get memory for GATT table, again

To: "Jacob Gorm Hansen" <jacobg@xxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: [Xen-devel] Failure to get memory for GATT table, again
From: "Ian Pratt" <m+Ian.Pratt@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2005 22:38:17 -0000
Cc: "Ian Pratt" <Ian.Pratt@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, "xen-devel" <xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Thread-topic: [Xen-devel] Failure to get memory for GATT table, again
> Just to recap, this seems like a bug in Xen or Xenlinux. 
> MMUEXT_SET_FOREIGNDOM seems to expect the granted pages to be 
> owned by 
> the grantee already, instead of the granter. I've disabled 
> the check in 
> Xen, and fglrx now proceeds to take down the machine when I start X. 
> Perhaps it would be better to spend the time on the open drivers at 
> http://r300.sourceforge.net/ , or wait for ATI to discover Xen.

It sounds rather more like an agp driver that's taking liberties to me.
The fact that disabling the check takes the machine down seems to
suggest its there for a purpose :-)

Trying to debug this without hardware or even driver source code is
pretty futile...

Ian


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