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

[Kevin E Martin]

On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 02:48:10AM +0100, Roland Mainz wrote:
> 
> Hi!
> 
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> 
> 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.

Kevin