linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] sis-agp: Remove SIS 760, handled by amd64-agp

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Message-ID: <1269572846.8653.39.camel@localhost>
Date:	Fri, 26 Mar 2010 03:07:26 +0000
From:	Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
To:	FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@....ntt.co.jp>
Cc:	airlied@...ux.ie, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] sis-agp: Remove SIS 760, handled by amd64-agp

On Fri, 2010-03-26 at 10:41 +0900, FUJITA Tomonori wrote:
> On Wed, 24 Mar 2010 03:33:48 +0000
> Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk> wrote:
> 
> > SIS 760 is listed in the device tables for both amd64-agp and sis-agp.
> > amd64-agp is apparently preferable since it has workarounds for some
> > BIOS misconfigurations that sis-agp doesn't handle.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
> > ---
> >  drivers/char/agp/sis-agp.c |    8 --------
> >  1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
> 
> Looks fine to me. Hopefully, amd64-agp can handle all SIS 760 systems.
> 
> Can we confirm that this can fix bugs reported in Debian's bug
> tracking system (which you mentioned earlier)?
[...]

The bug involves amd64-agp screwing with a device that is already bound
to sis-agp.  This patch should be sufficient to work around that.  But
the second patch, to amd64-agp, should actually fix it.  This is not
confirmed but I can try to get the bug submitters to test it.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse.

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