[Intel-gfx] [ANNOUNCE] xf86-video-intel 2.10.0

[Colin Guthrie]

'Twas brillig, and Greg KH at 04/01/10 23:50 did gyre and gimble:
> On Mon, Jan 04, 2010 at 11:58:40PM +0100, Stefan Dirsch wrote:
>> On Mon, Jan 04, 2010 at 02:25:19PM -0800, Carl Worth wrote:
>>>  * Video overlay support with KMS. This currently requires Linux
>>>    2.6.33, but a backport to 2.6.32 is available here:
>>>
>>>    http://gitorious.org/daniel-s-linux-stuff/linux-kernel/commits/intel-kms-overlay-for-2.6.32
>>
>> Thanks! Are this the 5 commits you can see on this page from December 8?
>>
>>  drm/i915: fix get_core_clock_speed for G33 class desktop chips
>>  drm/i915: implement fastpath for overlay flip waiting
>>  drm/i915: fully switch off overlay when not in use
>>  drm/i915: implement drmmode overlay support v4
>>  drm/i915: add i915_lp_ring_sync helper
> 
> And are any of these applicable to the 2.6.32-stable tree to keep
> distros from having to backport them on their own?


On top of the above I think the following is a candidate too:
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14627

I hope it is applicable for the -stable tree too, but not sure of the
internals.

Col

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