Re: Linux 2.6.12-rc2

[Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>]

Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org> wrote:
>
> Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > Benjamin Herrenschmidt:
> >   o radeonfb: Implement proper workarounds for PLL accesses
> >   o radeonfb: DDC i2c fix
> >   o radeonfb: Fix mode setting on CRT monitors
> >   o radeonfb: Preserve TMDS setting
> 
> One of these patches introduced two regressions on my Thinkpad X31 with
> "ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Mobility M6 LY (prog-if 00 [VGA])":
> 
> 1. When resuming from S3 suspend and having switched off the backlight
> with radeontool the backlight isn't switched back on any more.
> 
> 2. I'm using fbcon as my primary work environment, but tty switching has
> become _very_ sloppy, it's at least a second now, while with 2.6.11 it
> was as fast as a few ms. Is this caused by the "proper PLL accesses"?
> 

Moritz, can you tell us whether either of these problems remain in 2.6.12-rc5?

Thanks.


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