with hardware acceleration disabled no crashes, lockups, etc. within 4-4.5 hours, now running chromium with R600_LLVM=0 R600_DEBUG=sb,sbsafemath,nollvm chromium-browser == LLVM is disabled and watching HTML5 videos, did a little search through bugs.freedesktop.org: radeonsi isn't the only chipset family affected: intel cards hd2000, hd3000, hd4000; gm45, gm965, i915 (sandybridge, ivybridge, haswell, etc.), or other radeons are also affected in different ways