From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Greg KH Subject: Re: psb_gfx removal Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2012 14:12:08 +0900 Message-ID: <20120606051208.GE14065@kroah.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mail-pb0-f49.google.com (mail-pb0-f49.google.com [209.85.160.49]) by gabe.freedesktop.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0FCB69F588 for ; Tue, 5 Jun 2012 22:12:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: by pbbrq13 with SMTP id rq13so9118405pbb.36 for ; Tue, 05 Jun 2012 22:12:14 -0700 (PDT) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: dri-devel-bounces+sf-dri-devel=m.gmane.org@lists.freedesktop.org Errors-To: dri-devel-bounces+sf-dri-devel=m.gmane.org@lists.freedesktop.org To: Jan Engelhardt Cc: tm@salestv.de, dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org, Alan Cox List-Id: dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org 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