tag 764528 + patch jessie tag 763155 + patch jessie thanks An improved patch has been posted, by Daniel Vetter of Intel: https://freedesktop.org/patch/42259/
It has also been discussed on the LKML, and I hope it will be included in the next round of pull requests of drm-next. On Sat, Feb 7, 2015 at 3:22 PM, Erich Schubert <er...@debian.org> wrote: > tag 764528 + patch jessie > tag 763155 + patch jessie > thanks > > There appears to be a rather easy patch available: > http://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/38659/ > "Quietly reject attempts to create non-pagealigned stolen objects" > > Judging from the discussion, it is not a real "bug". It is an > unexpected behavior (Bios using non-aligned video buffer, supported by > the hardware, but not aligned to the driver requirements). The patch > essentially replaces the BUG_ON with a log statement and then returns > null, which is supposed to reliably work. (Without reusing the memory > the bios used.) > > This probably won't be the final fix. There is some discussion here: > http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.freedesktop.xorg.drivers.intel/52613 > which suggests that instead it may be desirable to reuse the bios > allocation, and just align it as desired. > > But since this causes boot issues on some eeePC models (apparently, it > depends on the bios and CPU), and the patch is quite simple, it should > be considered for jessie, even if the patch isn't the long-term > solution yet. Thank you. > > Regards, > Erich > > On Sun, Nov 30, 2014 at 10:59 PM, Erich Schubert <er...@debian.org> wrote: >> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=86883 >> >> Not sure if kernel bugzilla wouldn't have been the better address, >> given that the BUG_ON clearly is in kernel code. But I guess it's the >> same developers anyway. >> >> Regards, >> Erich -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-x-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/CAGKbab_B25VNNXEdsYK4LPeYz2BN3FjjOyWwDk3R=9H=4ac...@mail.gmail.com
