On Sun, 2011-03-06 at 19:49 -0500, John D. Hendrickson and Sara Darnell
wrote:
I haven't heard of many chips that won't hang given the wrong
instructsion whether it's GPU or keyboard controller.
Of course. This is why the kernel driver filters the commands going to
the GPU - the commands come from unprivileged applications (the Mesa
driver is just a shared library) and should not be trusted.
Sounds like more
than a driver issue but a choice of driver issue. How are you going to
have it both ways without an ammount of care you have no time for?
having interrupting access / watchdog is nice if your driver can do that
Ben Hutchings wrote:
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Don't top-post.
Ben.