Re: [Call for testers] DRM device-independent code update to Linux 3.8

From: Anders Bolt-Evensen <andersbo87_at_me.com>
Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2015 09:54:45 +0100
> On 18 Feb 2015, at 20:45, Shawn Webb <lattera_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> On Wednesday, February 18, 2015 12:45:36 AM Jean-Sébastien Pédron wrote:
>> Hi!
>> 
>> An update to the DRM subsystem, not including the drivers, is ready for
>> wider testing!
>> 
>> The patch against HEAD is here:
>> https://people.freebsd.org/~dumbbell/graphics/drm-update-38.f.patch
>> 
>> I'm interested in success/failure reports for amd64, powerpc and
>> powerpc64 users, for i915 and Radeon GPUs. I already know there is a
>> build issue on i386, please wait for the next patch if you are in this case.
>> 
>> The changes brought by this patch are explained in a blog post:
>> http://blogs.freebsdish.org/graphics/2015/02/18/testing-the-drm-update/
>> 
>> This is working well for some Radeon users for more than a year.
>> However, it only started to work with i915 a month ago, when the i915
>> refresh was committed.
>> 
>> Try your day-to-day applications, try suspend/resume, try all output
>> connectors, try OpenGL stuff, try backlight controls, everything :)
>> 
>> Thank you!
> 
> The patch drastically fails to apply on recent HEAD.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Shawn

The patch failed to apply on HEAD here as well. Using the newest sources (fetched about 10 minutes ago).

Anders
Received on Fri Feb 20 2015 - 07:55:21 UTC

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