On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 3:35 PM, Tim Gardner tim.gardner@canonical.com wrote:
Dave - I couldn't find this patch in your git repo at git://people.freedesktop.org/~airlied/linux in the drm-next or drm-fixes branches.
https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/1379071/
It appears to fix a real problem for Mac users - http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1039157. See https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/oneiric/+source/linux/+bug/1039157/comment... for confirmation.
Thanks, I was going to point out that Dave had already fix this, but it seem you already knew about that. There is a companion patch along side with the one mentioned.
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/dri-devel/2012-August/027124.html http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/dri-devel/2012-August/027125.html
I recommend applying both and turning the config to yes (as long as you have the kms enabled xf86-video-vmware driver installed). I RB:ed them both along with the dumb ioctl interface here:
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/dri-devel/2012-August/027139.html
I think it should also be 'Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org'. It applies as far back as 2.6.32 with minor context differences.
rtg
Its probably safe, but it could mean that the driver gets loaded on distros, where in the past it hasn't tho that should be safe.
Cheers, Jakob.