linux-kernel - Re: Intel 915GM MCHBAR bug

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Date:	Sat, 6 Jun 2009 23:58:02 +0100
From:	Andy Whitcroft <apw@...onical.com>
To:	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Woody Suwalski <woodys@...dros.com>, jbarnes@...tuousgeek.org,
	eric@...olt.net, intel-gfx@...ts.freedesktop.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org,
	stable@...nel.org, tim.gardner@...onical.com,
	stefan.bader@...onical.com
Subject: Re: Intel 915GM MCHBAR bug

On Sat, Jun 06, 2009 at 09:37:00AM +0300, Pekka Enberg wrote:
> Hi Andrew,
>
> On Sat, 06 Jun 2009 09:14:41 +0300 Pekka Enberg <penberg@...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.

We cirtainly have been carrying for some time.  My understanding was
that the maintainers had it and had been expecting it to merge through
them.  Did we miss a trick somewhere?

-apw
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