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

From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt
Date: Fri Feb 06 2009 - 01:01:40 EST



> 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.


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