Re: SiS drm broken during 2.6.9-rc1-bk1

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Mon Jun 27 2005 - 02:37:07 EST



* Dave Airlie <airlied@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Just for completeness, Thomas Winischoffer tracked this down over the
> weekend, I had stared at it previously to no great avail,
>
> The issue was with the user space SiS Mesa driver having an
> uninitialised structure on the stack for the copy command sent to the
> DRM, with the old layout it would end up with zero'ed reserved fields
> by luck most of the time, with the new one it went the other way..

ah, makes sense.

> the fix is now in Mesa CVS....

great!

Ingo
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