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

[Greg KH]

On Tue, Jan 05, 2010 at 12:43:30AM +0000, Colin Guthrie wrote:
> '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.

If so, send the git commit id of the patch that is in Linus's tree to
stable at kernel.org and it will be queued up.

thanks,

greg k-h