NAK: vmwgfx hardware enablement patch

Thomas Hellstrom thellstrom at vmware.com
Mon Mar 10 08:54:40 UTC 2014


On 03/04/2014 11:58 PM, Tim Gardner wrote:
> On 03/04/2014 12:57 PM, Tim Gardner wrote:
>> On 03/04/2014 08:53 AM, Tim Gardner wrote:
>>> On 03/04/2014 08:00 AM, Jakob Bornecrantz wrote:
>>>> Hello all,
>>>>
>>>> This squashed patch series implements "guest backed surfaces" in the
>>>> VMware vmwgfx kernel driver. It is used along with changes in the
>>>> mesa source tree (which you guys have already have to my knowledge
>>>> picked up since it was in the 10.1 mesa release). We would like
>>>> to have this included in the trusty release, please.
>>>>
>>>> The patch is backported from the 3.14 kernel and is rather large,
>>>> but mostly only touches the vmwgfx driver and some minor touches
>>>> on the generic ttm code. You can get it from here:
>>>>
>>>> git://people.freedesktop.org/~wallbraker/linux for-unbuntu-vmwgfx
>>>>
>>>> Comments please?
>>>>
>>>> Cheers, Jakob.
>>>>
>>>> PS: I'm sorry I don't know which tags to put in the subject,
>>>>      so I just left it as it
>>>>
>>>
>>> I prefer the individual commits, each of which must be clearly
>>> marked as
>>> a clean cherry-pick or a backport.
>>>
>>> I've reviewed the list of commits that went into the squash. With the
>>> exception of 05efb1abecce6e36457ae1a7be29ded7ac52292a "drm/ttm: ttm
>>> object security fixes for render nodes", all of the other commits only
>>> touch drm/vmwgfx. I'll assume y'all know what you're doing there.
>>>
>>> rtg
>>
>> How about this:
>>
>> git://kernel.ubuntu.com/rtg/ubuntu-trusty.git vmwgfx
>>
>> rtg
>
> Never mind. I just merged these patches. They'll show up in linux
> 3.13.0-16.36
>
> rtg

Tim,
 
Thanks for this. It occured to me that there is a fix for the TTM commit
in the squash patch. It's upstream  c66f85433, and I've attached it to
this email. I can include it in the squash and resend if you prefer.

Thanks,
Thomas

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