Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 9 Jun 2009 15:07:57 -0700 | From | Jesse Barnes <> | Subject | Re: [Intel-gfx] Intel 915GM MCHBAR bug |
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On Sat, 6 Jun 2009 21:27:59 +0100 Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org> wrote:
> On Sat, 06 Jun 2009 09:37:00 +0300 > Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> wrote: > > > Hi Andrew, > > > > On Sat, 06 Jun 2009 09:14:41 +0300 Pekka Enberg > > <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> wrote: > > >>>> Wanna show us the patch? > > >>>> > > >>>> Because the world could certainly do with more i915 bugfixes :( > > >>> > > >>> Here is Jesse's patch from > > >>> http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/intel-gfx/2009-January/001186.html > > >>> adopted for 2.6.30-rc8... (needed to redo hunk #3 for > > >>> i915_gem_tile.c) > > >> Yup. I took the two patches from here: > > >> > > >> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/349314 > > >> > > >> and did the same rediffing on top of 2.6.30-rc8 for the first > > >> one. > > >> > > >> Andrew, do you want me to forward you the (tested) patches or > > >> should we wait for Jesse et al to take care of it? > > > > > > Yes, please send them out. > > > > OK, I did that. I am bit unhappy that I had to do it, though. The > > patch dates back to January (!) and Ubuntu folks have been carrying > > it for a while now. > > > > Looking at the amount of reports out in the wild (on Ubuntu forums, > > etc.), I really don't understand why this wasn't submitted earlier. > > Instead, the bug was flagged with low priority because it's "just a > > performance problem." Considering the system is more or less > > unusable for me, I obviously think it's a critical bug fix. > > > > Andrew Morton wrote: > > > These might end up being 2.6.30.1 material. > > > > Yes, agreed completely. We probably want ACK from Jesse and Bjorn, > > though. > > I'm ok with it being 2.6.30.1 stuff, but given the significance of the > change we were worried about putting it into 2.6.30 late in the cycle. > But as you say, it's a very important performance fix for many > machines... > > Anyway, Eric may already have it merged. Eric? >
It's merged now into the drm-intel-next tree, and therefore queued for the merge window.
Jeses
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