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

[Daniel Vetter]

On Mon, Jan 04, 2010 at 03:50:58PM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> 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

Yep, that's it. No userspace stuff needed (latest libdrm contains the
ioctl definitions).

> And are any of these applicable to the 2.6.32-stable tree to keep
> distros from having to backport them on their own?

This is a mininal backport to .32 of the new ioctl merged into for .33. I
intend to support this and gather eventual fixes in the mentioned git
repo. Distros are encouraged to use this, IIRC debian and gentoo will.
Save when you want to severely bend the rules, this is not stable
material: New ioctl, 1.5k loc, not quite the code merged in -linus (but
less invasive and easier to support standalone).

> thanks,
> 
> greg k-h

Yours, Daniel
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