Bug#550562: Blob firmware loader corrupts filesystem
On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 02:30:18 -0800, Ben Wong wrote:
> > When you say it 'only affect systems that use the radeon/R200_cp.bin
> > firmware' do you mean that you tested systems with other Radeon GPU
> > versions and they were not affected, or that this problem appeared after
> > the firmware was separated out (Debian package version 2.6.29-1)?
>
> My apologies for the poorly worded sentence. While it happens to be
> the case that all the reports of this corruption that I've seen on the
> Net concern the R200 firmware, I have not tested other Radeon GPUs.
>
FWIW, http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=550977 was
reported on r100, not r200.
The reports seem to have started shortly after the upload of mesa 7.6 to
unstable, so it's possible this is a long-standing kernel bug being
triggered by a new bug in mesa 7.6.
7.6-1 to unstable: Brice Goglin <bgoglin@debian.org> on Tue, 29 Sep 2009
12:03:16 +0000
550562 reported on Sun, 11 Oct 2009 08:55:00 +0200
550977 reported on Wed, 14 Oct 2009 17:17:56 +0200
The splitting of the radeon firmware out of the kernel module, on the
other hand, seems to have happened with the upload of linux-2.6 2.6.29-1
to unstable, in March 2009.
Cheers,
Julien
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