SiS driver changes

Thomas Winischhofer thomas at winischhofer.net
Thu Aug 19 14:50:13 PDT 2004


Kevin E Martin wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 02:24:51AM +0200, Thomas Winischhofer wrote:
> 
>>I will need to commit some SiS driver changes tomorrow. Do you really 
>>need to review them?
>>
>>Don't get me wrong but I don't think you have any idea on the driver's 
>>internals in order to evaluate the intended changes.
>>
>>But anyway, if you insist, I can send them to you first.
>>
>>(Details: It seems SiS made another effort to change their BIOS data 
>>layout. The driver needs some adjustments to the way it determines 
>>whether or not it uses the BIOS data for timing. Changes will happen to 
>>init301.c and init301.h assumingly. Don't know the details yet as the 
>>changes need testing which will happen tommorrow morning [about 9:00 CEST])
> 
> 
> The problem is that the code freeze has passed and major only blocker
> bugs (or other code that we are waiting for fixes on) are being allowed
> into the release now.  The proper way to get anything checked in at this
> point is to submit a bugzilla report with a patch and make it block the
> release bug (#351).  If it is a small change, then it will probably be
> included right away.  However, if it is larger, then it will be
> discussed either on the release wranglers list or on the next release
> wranglers call.
> 
> BTW, if your changes are completely confined to the SiS driver, then I
> think you'll have an excellent chance of convincing everyone that they
> should be included.
> 
> Kevin
> 

I hope I have done this correctly (not really experienced with bugzilla):

http://freedesktop.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1139

Please consider this for inclusion.

Thomas

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