Re: [Bug #12608] 2.6.29-rc powerpc G5 Xorg legacy_mem regression

Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2009-02-06T06:01:13Z

> I think the correct answer is the ugly one, try again.

Well... it's a fairly recent damage in X which is why I was somewhat
hoping that it wasn't too widespread it couldn't be contained
before the kernel got butchered :-)

But I'll just stick anonymous memory in there instead, it should be
trivial enough.

> Add a new legacy_mem interface that works cleanly, update X to use it,
> leave the old
> broken one broken as it for older X to use.

:-)

Ben.