Messages in this thread | | | From | Ben Hutchings <> | Date | Fri, 26 Mar 2010 03:07:26 +0000 | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/2] sis-agp: Remove SIS 760, handled by amd64-agp |
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On Fri, 2010-03-26 at 10:41 +0900, FUJITA Tomonori wrote: > On Wed, 24 Mar 2010 03:33:48 +0000 > Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> wrote: > > > SIS 760 is listed in the device tables for both amd64-agp and sis-agp. > > amd64-agp is apparently preferable since it has workarounds for some > > BIOS misconfigurations that sis-agp doesn't handle. > > > > Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> > > --- > > drivers/char/agp/sis-agp.c | 8 -------- > > 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) > > Looks fine to me. Hopefully, amd64-agp can handle all SIS 760 systems. > > Can we confirm that this can fix bugs reported in Debian's bug > tracking system (which you mentioned earlier)? [...]
The bug involves amd64-agp screwing with a device that is already bound to sis-agp. This patch should be sufficient to work around that. But the second patch, to amd64-agp, should actually fix it. This is not confirmed but I can try to get the bug submitters to test it.
Ben.
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