linux-kernel - Re: [git pull] drm: previous pull req + 1.

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Date:	Sun, 21 Jun 2009 09:46:54 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Dave Airlie <airlied@...ux.ie>
cc:	Andy Lutomirski <luto@....edu>, dri-devel@...ts.sf.net,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [git pull] drm: previous pull req + 1.



On Sun, 21 Jun 2009, Dave Airlie wrote:
> > 
> > I tried this tree (specifically, a merge of Linus' fb20871 this tree) on
> > Fedora 11 with modesetting enabled on an integrated Radeon 2100, and plymouthd
> > crashes immediately with a corrupt page table.  Photo attached.  After the
> > crash, bootup stops, although ctrl-alt-del works.
> 
> You need a different userspace, -ati from koji in F11 should do it.

Dave - no amount of userspace differences make a corrupted page table 
acceptable. 

This needs to be fixed. No excuses. Kernel crashes are never an issue of 
"you used the wrong user space".

		Linus
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