From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Wed, 13 Oct 1999 08:30:25 +0200 (MET DST) From: Geert Uytterhoeven To: Lou Langholtz cc: Daniel Jacobowitz , linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org Subject: Re: controlfb.c bug in VRAM bank2 check if bank1 In-Reply-To: <38035584.C82792C2@chpc.utah.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: On Tue, 12 Oct 1999, Lou Langholtz wrote: > Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > > > Could you check whether that kernel has the patch I posted to this list > > last month applied? > > As you suspect, 2.2.13pre15 does not have your patch. AC's 2.2.13pre15 doesn't > have any changes at all to it's controlfb.c code. It's still the same as even in > the kernel distro of 2.2.6 (which is the earliest kernel I still have a copy of > source for on hand). Given a number of different behavioral characteristics > people have been describing of kernel's from vger I'd say there's been other > changes as well that still haven't made it into the Linus or AC distributed > kernel sources either unfortunately. I'm not in the privvy as far as I know > however to push these changes into the main stream kernel sources but if you or > someone else on this lilst is I say: "please, please get the in!". ;-) I guess in > the meantime I'm going to have to try sucking down the sources from vger but > given that I've been badly afflicted by the PPP/TCP death march that I and others > have been discussing I'm unsure I'll succeed at getting the whole thing from > vger. Linus accepted all video patches I sent him for 2.3.20. Note that I assume no responsabilities for the video stuff in 2.2.x. I barely have time to take care of 2.3.x. That's the problem with anything besides ia32: we hardly have enough manpower to work on 2.3.x, so who's taking care of 2.2.x? Greetings, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven ----------------- Sony Suprastructure Center Europe (SUPC-E) Geert.Uytterhoeven@sonycom.com ------------------- Sint Stevens Woluwestraat 55 Phone +32-2-7248632 Fax +32-2-7262686 ---------------- B-1130 Brussels, Belgium ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/