Getting two SIS-specifc driver fixes into X11R6.8.2RC4...

Thomas Winischhofer thomas at winischhofer.net
Mon Jan 31 18:07:16 PST 2005


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Kevin E Martin wrote:
| On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 02:48:10AM +0100, Roland Mainz wrote:
|
|>Hi!
|>
|>----
|>
|>Are there any objetions to take the following two patches into the
|>"stable" branch for X11R6.8.2RC4 (yes, it's beyond the deadline outlined
|>in todays release-wrangles phone call, however both patches are
|>SIS-specific (e.g. isolated and do not affect other drivers or parts of
|>X11), both patches seem to be in Xorg trunk already and were tested (per
|>Thomas's comments)) ? Right now I am holding release canidate 4 off for
|>these two patches (but no longer than 24h from now) ...
|>
|>1. https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2437 ("sis driver reads
|>wrong data from BIOS image")
|>2. https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2438 ("sis driver cannot
|>restore console on AMD64 in 64bit mode"), pure build fix which sets one
|>define for AMD64.
|
|
| Both of these patches look fine for inclusion in RC4.
|
| After RC4 is tagged, I think that we should limit any remaining changes
| for 6.8.2 to documentation changes only.


You won't get any such noise from me from now on, promise ;)

Thomas


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Thomas Winischhofer
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