Re: Patch for bug #1912 applied incorrectly to 6.8 branch

Roland Mainz <[email protected]> Fri, 11 Feb 2005 01:12:53 +0100

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.freedesktop.release-wranglers,gmane.comp.freedesktop.xorg
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Adam Jackson wrote:
> > It looks like instead of the second hunk of
> >
> > https://bugs.freedesktop.org/attachment.cgi?id=1433
> >
> > a RADEONSetFBLocation() call was added to RADEONAdjustFrame().
> > RADEONSetFBLocation() should be called as rarely as possible because it
> > messes with the guts of the GPU memory controller.
> 
> I think we need to get this backed out before the release, please.

Unfortunately it's far far too late now... ;-(

But there will likely be a X11R6.8.3 release to correct such mistakes
(and most of the patches which were too late, e.g. beyond the
code-freeze deadline) ...

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Bye,
Roland

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