[Intel-gfx] Intel 2009Q2 release

[Alan W. Irwin]

On 2009-07-22 10:15+0200 Julien Cristau wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 23:31:59 -0700, Alan W. Irwin wrote:
>
>> I have a question for the Debian X maintainers lurking on this list.  As far
>> as I can tell, the Debian changelog for kernel-2.6.30 does not mention any
>> of the 8 recommended graphics patches.  So is there any chance that the
>> Debian kernel maintainers would be convinced to patch the official Debian
>> kernel with those 8 patches or will I have to build my own patched kernel
>> (or wait for kernel-2.6.31 to make it into Debian unstable)?  (I have a G33
>> chipset.)
>>
> The best way for this to happen would be to send the relevant patches to
> stable at kernel.org for the next 2.6.30.x release.

Thanks, Julien:

Someone else in this thread also made that same excellent suggestion, and I
agree from the Debian (and other distro) perspective that is the obvious way
to proceed.

I hope those here with the relevant kernel contacts will make it happen.

Alan
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