Bug#170690: marked as done (xlibmesa-gl: DRI drivers try to run 3DNow! instructions on Pentium 4)
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From: Olaf Weber <olaf@infovore.xs4all.nl>
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Subject: xlibmesa3: DRI drivers may run 3dnow instructions on Pentium 4
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Package: xlibmesa3
Version: 4.2.1-3
Severity: normal
Tags: upstream
My laptop has a Mobile Pentium 4 processor and Radeon 7500c gfx. I found
that with xlibmesa3 installed and DRI enabled any program that uses OpenGL
would die with a SIGILL in the radeon_dri.so library.
Investigation revealed that the problem occurred in code containing 3dnow
instructions -- setting MESA_NO_3DNOW prevented the crashes. This in turn
is due to the way the library obtains the capability information for cpus:
it uses CPUID to get the capability bitvectors and passes those around
unchanged. This worked while the bits AMD uses to signal the availability
of 3DNOW were not used by intel as well. In the pentium 4 family, this
assumption no longer holds.
The code that does the probe is found in
xc/extras/Mesa/src/X86/common_x86_asm.S
The obvious quick fix would be to mask the problematic bits in the intel
branch of the code before returning the bitvector. A more complete fix
would be to not use the CPU's capability vector directly, but instead use
it to construct a cability vector for the library.
-- System Information:
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Kernel: Linux infovore 2.4.18 #3 Wed Nov 20 00:59:38 CET 2002 i686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C
Versions of packages xlibmesa3 depends on:
ii debconf 1.2.16 Debian configuration management sy
ii libc6 2.3.1-5 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 1:2.95.4-15 The GNU stdc++ library
ii xlibs 4.2.1-3 X Window System client libraries
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From: Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org>
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Subject: Re: Bug#170690: xlibmesa3: DRI drivers may run 3dnow instructions on Pentium 4
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This bug was also reported as #215831, and was fixed months ago.
xfree86 (4.3.0-1) experimental; urgency=3Dlow
[...]
* Grab (from upstream Mesa 5.1) a patch which re-implements the x86 CPU
detection code, which should rectify problems with spurious detection a=
nd
attempted usage of 3Dnow! extensions on Pentium 4 processors (thanks, P=
etr
Sebor). (Closes: #215831)
- debian/patches/000_stolen_from_Mesa_5.1.diff
[...]
-- Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> Tue, 17 Feb 2004 12:58:28 -0500
Closing this report.
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