Re: 2.6.1-mm1: drivers/video/sis/sis_main.c link error

[Andrew Morton]

Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> However, since I've been running 2.6.1-mm1 here, using the rivafb with 
>  an elderly gforce2-mx2 32 megger, I've noted that when running 
>  kde-3.1.1a with 8 windows, and a couple of them have multimegabyte 
>  backdrops, the biggest one being that famous deep space shot from 
>  hubble of about 4 or 5 months back.  In any other kernel, switching 
>  to that window took about 12 seconds for the backdrop to be converted 
>  to 1600x1200x32 and drawn the first time and about 8 seconds for the 
>  next time.  But with this 2.6.1-mm1 kernel, that repeat window switch 
>  is so close to instant that I cannot see it being drawn.
> 
>  So as far as I'm concerned, this particular set of fb patches to 
>  rivafb *need* to stay in mainline.  I'd sure appreciate it, a bunch.

There are no significant fbdev patches in 2.6.1-mm1.  There is a DRM
update.
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