[PATCH 0/2] [Maverick] boot frambuffer crash fixes

[Andy Whitcroft]

On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 04:33:35PM +0100, Andy Whitcroft wrote:
> We have been having a heap of crashes during boot due to plymouth tickling
> various bugs in the frambuffer and drm handling.  Basically the locking
> is woeful in these two drivers and it is possible to open them before they
> have completed initialising.  This leads to a bunch of random crashes in
> various routines, open, mmap, close, etc.  These two patches attempt to
> close up the locking in these such that the consumer has a fighting chance
> to get to the buffer only when it is ready.
> 
> These are for Maverick.

Seems the mail system lost the 2/2 ... a resend seems to have worked.

-apw