NAK: vmwgfx hardware enablement patch
Jakob Bornecrantz
jakob at vmware.com
Wed Mar 5 00:07:34 UTC 2014
----- Ursprungligt meddelande -----
> 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
I took a look and all of the commits from the squashed one seems to be
there, with the exception of the reverts you did which are new.
> >
> > rtg
>
> Never mind. I just merged these patches. They'll show up in linux
> 3.13.0-16.36
Awesome thanks, sorry for not getting to you earlier.
Cheers, Jakob
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