linux-kernel - Re: Linux 2.6.29-rc2

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Date:	Tue, 20 Jan 2009 09:50:27 +0100
From:	Thierry Vignaud <tvignaud@...driva.com>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.29-rc2

Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> writes:

> It's out there now, or at least in the process of mirroring out.
> 
> About half of the bulk is a late MIPS merge (tssk, tssk, but I really 
> couldn't make myself care too much), and there are a few odd new drivers 
> there too. In fact, of the non-MIPS code, drivers is about half of the 
> remaining one, and then firmware (which is really drivers too but shows up 
> separately) is half of _that_ remaining half.
> 
> And there's the system call sign-extension for for the architectures that 
> need it (ppc/64 and s390/64). The rest is really pretty small.
> 
> But despite being small, that's probably more important and noticeable to 
> most people: the first slew of regression fixes. We had non-working 3D 
> acceleration on many machines (no compiz! What shall we do without those 
> wobbly windows!) that should be fixed, and a ton of other irritating 
> issues like that.

Well, "xorg failling to start up" regression fix hasn't yet been
included.
Since 2.6.28, X.org failed to start with SiS video cards due to PAT.
See  http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12372
The patch fix hasn't been included neither in RC1 nor in RC2...
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