couple of nvidia-driver issues

[Andriy Gapon]

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On 24/11/2017 11:31, Andriy Gapon wrote:
> 
> I have reported a couple of nvidia-driver issues in the FreeBSD section of the
> nVidia developer forum, but no replies so far.
> 
> Well, the first issue is not with the driver, but with a utility that comes with
> it, nvidia-smi:
> https://devtalk.nvidia.com/default/topic/1026589/freebsd/nvidia-smi-query-gpu-spins-forever-on-freebsd-head-amd64-/
> I wonder if I am the only one affected or if I see the problem because I am on
> head or something else.
> I am pretty sure that the problem is caused by a programming bug related to
> strtok_r.
> 
> The second issue is with the FreeBSD support for the kernel driver:
> https://devtalk.nvidia.com/default/topic/1026645/freebsd/panic-related-to-nvkms_timers-lock-sx-lock-/
> I would like to get some feedback on my analysis.
> I am testing this patch right now:
> https://people.freebsd.org/~avg/extra-patch-src_nvidia-modeset_nvidia-modeset-freebsd.c
> 
> Also, what's the best place or who are the best people with whom to discuss such
> issues?
> Thank you!
> 


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Andriy Gapon