psb_gfx removal

Greg KH gregkh at linuxfoundation.org
Tue Jun 5 22:12:08 PDT 2012


On Tue, Jun 05, 2012 at 03:01:06PM +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> [fixed up gregkh's address]
> 
> Hi,
> 
> 
> I have here a "Wortmann AG terra Pad 1051", which has a GMA500-like 
> device (PCI ID 8086:4102). Using Linux 3.1.x (openSUSE 12.1's default), 
> loading psb_gfx.ko crashed the machine. I therefore tried Linux 3.4.0,
> where this crash does not occur thankfully.
> 
> According to your commit b7cdd9e6323af368e26121c5b791eddc78e79fea, 
> GMA500 is now available through the DRM tree. I take it you mean 
> kernel/drivers/gpu/drm/gma500/gma500_gfx.ko by that. However, 
> gma500_gfx.ko does not provide support for 8086:4102, i.e. modinfo does 
> not show the alias.
> 
> So, am I correct in the assumption that the 4102 code never really 
> worked, and deletion of psb_gfx was therefore ok without having 4102 
> support in gma500_gfx?

I have no idea at all, that would be up to Alan to answer, not me.

greg k-h


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