https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=60254
--- Comment #2 from Andy Furniss lists@andyfurniss.entadsl.com --- (In reply to comment #1)
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The GPU lock with Rv670 and openarena is nothing new - it seems to have been a feature for almost a year (I haven't used rv670 for most of that time).
On noticing the new gpu reset code in drm-next-3.9-wip I decided to provoke it on my AGP box and got -
Hmm I just managed to get the same running drm-fixes so it's not wip maybe it's because I am now using llvm. In the (no llvm) past with other kernels this GPU lock normally went quite well - the game often just continued for a while, until it hit another one.
It's nothing to do with llvm seems like it's a feature of more recent kernels.