linux-kernel - Re: [3.7-rc5/rc6 regression] "drm/nvc0/disp: fix regression in vblank semaphore release" broke nouveau driver and mplayer

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Date:	Wed, 21 Nov 2012 12:02:46 -0500
From:	Joseph Salisbury <joseph.salisbury@...onical.com>
To:	Marcin Slusarz <marcin.slusarz@...il.com>
CC:	Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@...uu.se>,
	David Airlie <airlied@...ux.ie>,
	Kelly Doran <kel.p.doran@...il.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Ben Skeggs <bskeggs@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [3.7-rc5/rc6 regression] "drm/nvc0/disp: fix regression in vblank
 semaphore release" broke nouveau driver and mplayer

On 11/17/2012 05:03 PM, Marcin Slusarz wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 08:35:18PM +0100, Mikael Pettersson wrote:
>> mplayer worked fine on my Dell Latitude E6510 (nVidia GT218 [NVS 3100M] graphics)
>> up to and including kernel 3.7-rc4. However, with 3.7-rc5 or -rc6, any attempt to
>> run mplayer just blanks the screen, shows some stray white pixels in the upper left
>> corner, kills the X server, and spews the following errors from the kernel:
> Fix was already posted and should be merged soon.
>
> http://cgit.freedesktop.org/nouveau/linux-2.6/commit/?id=7a259e65569bd7593ad541c84982027969ec9c45
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Do you happen to know if this fix will make it into 3.7, or do you think 
it won't happen until 3.8?

Thanks,

Joe
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