Kernel prepatch 2.6.37-rc6
Nothing specific stands out - as should be at -rc6, it's basically bugfixes. The appended shortlog hopefully fives some idea about things, but it's about half drivers, and the rest is mostly some arch updates (arm, sparc) and filesystems (btrfs, ceph, cifs, and small ext4 regression fixes). And some networking." The short-form changelog is in the announcement, or see the full changelog for all the details.
Posted Dec 17, 2010 9:43 UTC (Fri)
by Duncan (guest, #6647)
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This one's likely to be critical for anyone running native kernel-drm/xorg driven r7xx based Radeon hardware on (now legacy) AGP.
The affected driver/hardware combo hasn't worked since a commit shortly after 2.6.35, that unfortunately made it into the stable series as well. So 2.6.35 itself works, but stable-series 2.6.35.x is broken as are all 2.6.36 releases and all 2.6.37-rcs up to rc6, which contains the fix.
Duncan (bug reporter and patch tester)
Kernel prepatch 2.6.37-rc6
> Author: Alex Deucher <alexdeucher@gmail.com>
> Date: Wed Dec 8 10:05:34 2010 -0500
>
> drm/radeon/kms: don't apply 7xx HDP flush workaround on AGP
>
> Fixes:
> https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19002