Messages in this thread | | | From | Andres Freund <> | Subject | Re: [git pull] agp patches for 2.6.28-rc1. | Date | Mon, 20 Oct 2008 04:27:20 +0200 |
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Hi,
On Monday 20 October 2008 04:19:07 you wrote: > On Mon, 2008-10-20 at 03:58 +0200, Andres Freund wrote: > > Its basically only this, right? > > Barring that I have absolutely idea about the code and all related stuff, > > do I see it correct, that this also will result in problems if the kernel > > doesn't have the related fix? > Yes, on this hardware, the kernel is smashing the last few stolen > entries with a bad value, so running a new driver against an old kernel > will fail as well. There's not a lot we can do about this direction > though; until we have all of this hardware management in one place, > we're stuck trying to synchronize fixes across two code bases. Ugly situation. So the distribution can't really do anything, because it will get locked either way.
> > If its really only a that small portion of hardware... At least the > > T500/T400 series, containing the same hw as mine, from Lenovo propably is > > not yet really wide spread (Laptop is 4weeks old or so and wasn't > > available before). > I haven't even received my x200s yet as they've just entered production. > The problem here was that the prototype hardware had a different > behavior than what is now shipping, so we didn't catch this mistake > until the first production machines were tested. Life is fun.
> If you care to try the above fix against your current driver sources, > that would be helpful for us. Will do so tomorrow morning, its 4am here ;-) and I finished the work I had to do tonight...
Greetings,
Andres
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