From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@inai.de>
Cc: tm@salestv.de, dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org,
Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: psb_gfx removal
Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2012 14:12:08 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120606051208.GE14065@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.2.01.1206051500220.9399@frira.zrqbmnf.qr>
On Tue, Jun 05, 2012 at 03:01:06PM +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> [fixed up gregkh's address]
>
> Hi,
>
>
> I have here a "Wortmann AG terra Pad 1051", which has a GMA500-like
> device (PCI ID 8086:4102). Using Linux 3.1.x (openSUSE 12.1's default),
> loading psb_gfx.ko crashed the machine. I therefore tried Linux 3.4.0,
> where this crash does not occur thankfully.
>
> According to your commit b7cdd9e6323af368e26121c5b791eddc78e79fea,
> GMA500 is now available through the DRM tree. I take it you mean
> kernel/drivers/gpu/drm/gma500/gma500_gfx.ko by that. However,
> gma500_gfx.ko does not provide support for 8086:4102, i.e. modinfo does
> not show the alias.
>
> So, am I correct in the assumption that the 4102 code never really
> worked, and deletion of psb_gfx was therefore ok without having 4102
> support in gma500_gfx?
I have no idea at all, that would be up to Alan to answer, not me.
greg k-h
prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-06-06 5:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-06-05 12:51 psb_gfx removal Jan Engelhardt
2012-06-05 16:29 ` Alan Cox
2012-06-07 13:53 ` Jan Engelhardt
2012-06-07 15:18 ` Alan Cox
[not found] ` <alpine.LNX.2.01.1206051500220.9399@frira.zrqbmnf.qr>
2012-06-06 5:12 ` Greg KH [this message]
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