NAK: vmwgfx hardware enablement patch

Tim Gardner tim.gardner at canonical.com
Tue Mar 4 22:58:14 UTC 2014


On 03/04/2014 12:57 PM, Tim Gardner wrote:
> On 03/04/2014 08:53 AM, Tim Gardner wrote:
>> On 03/04/2014 08:00 AM, Jakob Bornecrantz wrote:
>>> Hello all,
>>>
>>> This squashed patch series implements "guest backed surfaces" in the
>>> VMware vmwgfx kernel driver. It is used along with changes in the
>>> mesa source tree (which you guys have already have to my knowledge
>>> picked up since it was in the 10.1 mesa release). We would like
>>> to have this included in the trusty release, please.
>>>
>>> The patch is backported from the 3.14 kernel and is rather large,
>>> but mostly only touches the vmwgfx driver and some minor touches
>>> on the generic ttm code. You can get it from here:
>>>
>>> git://people.freedesktop.org/~wallbraker/linux for-unbuntu-vmwgfx
>>>
>>> Comments please?
>>>
>>> Cheers, Jakob.
>>>
>>> PS: I'm sorry I don't know which tags to put in the subject,
>>>      so I just left it as it
>>>
>>
>> I prefer the individual commits, each of which must be clearly marked as
>> a clean cherry-pick or a backport.
>>
>> I've reviewed the list of commits that went into the squash. With the
>> exception of 05efb1abecce6e36457ae1a7be29ded7ac52292a "drm/ttm: ttm
>> object security fixes for render nodes", all of the other commits only
>> touch drm/vmwgfx. I'll assume y'all know what you're doing there.
>>
>> rtg
>
> How about this:
>
> git://kernel.ubuntu.com/rtg/ubuntu-trusty.git vmwgfx
>
> rtg

Never mind. I just merged these patches. They'll show up in linux 
3.13.0-16.36

rtg
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Tim Gardner tim.gardner at canonical.com




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