Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Linux 2.6.29-rc2 | From | Thierry Vignaud <> | Date | Tue, 20 Jan 2009 09:50:27 +0100 |
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Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> writes:
> It's out there now, or at least in the process of mirroring out. > > About half of the bulk is a late MIPS merge (tssk, tssk, but I really > couldn't make myself care too much), and there are a few odd new drivers > there too. In fact, of the non-MIPS code, drivers is about half of the > remaining one, and then firmware (which is really drivers too but shows up > separately) is half of _that_ remaining half. > > And there's the system call sign-extension for for the architectures that > need it (ppc/64 and s390/64). The rest is really pretty small. > > But despite being small, that's probably more important and noticeable to > most people: the first slew of regression fixes. We had non-working 3D > acceleration on many machines (no compiz! What shall we do without those > wobbly windows!) that should be fixed, and a ton of other irritating > issues like that.
Well, "xorg failling to start up" regression fix hasn't yet been included. Since 2.6.28, X.org failed to start with SiS video cards due to PAT. See http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12372 The patch fix hasn't been included neither in RC1 nor in RC2...
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