Re: Linux 2.6.29-rc2

From: Thierry Vignaud
Date: Tue Jan 20 2009 - 04:19:24 EST


Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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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