[Maverick] [PATCH 0/4] KMS Disablement for i8xx

[Leann Ogasawara]

On Thu, 2010-09-02 at 14:25 -0400, Steven wrote:
> Dear Kernel Team,
> 
> 
> Please do NOT reapply these patches. UMS causes the majority of 8xx
> cards to boot to a black screen on Lucid and forward. I spent at least
> a month fixing probably a hundred different peoples' install problems
> after Lucid was released because of these patches.
> 
> 
> If you do decide to reapply these, PLEASE consider paying especially
> close attention to bugs related to this change, at the very least.
> 
> 
> I realize support on i8xx is difficult, but please be aware that these
> patches caused more harm than good for the Lucid release. Thank you
> for your time.

Thanks for the email Stenten.

Chris, you were the origination for the request to re-apply these KMS
disablement patches to Maverick.  What's your take on Stenten's comments
above.  I haven't yet re-applied these to Maverick and will hold off
until we hear back from you.

Thanks,
Leann

> On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 1:27 PM, Tim Gardner
> <tim.gardner at canonical.com> wrote:
>         On 08/31/2010 10:13 AM, leann.ogasawara at canonical.com wrote:
>         > In Lucid, we were carrying the following 4 patches to
>         disable KMS for a
>         > known set of broken devices, specifically some i8xx chipsets
>         [1].  We
>         > purposely didn't carry these SAUCE patches forward to
>         Maverick in hopes
>         > that this would no longer be an issue.  Unfortunately, this
>         does not
>         > appear to be the case.  I'll be re-applying the following 4
>         patches to
>         > Maverick.
>         >
>         > Thanks,
>         > Leann
>         >
>         > [1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Bugs/Lucidi8xxFreezes
>         >
>         > Andy Whitcroft (4):
>         >    UBUNTU: SAUCE: i915 KMS -- support disabling KMS for
>         known broken
>         >      devices
>         >    UBUNTU: SAUCE: i915 KMS -- blacklist i830
>         >    UBUNTU: SAUCE: i915 KMS -- blacklist i845g
>         >    UBUNTU: SAUCE: i915 KMS -- blacklist i855
>         >
>         >   drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.c |   16 ++++++++++++++++
>         >   1 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>         >
>         >
>         
>         
>         Acked-by: Tim Gardner <tim.gardner at canonical.com>
>         
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