rawhide report: 20090528 changes

[Will Woods]

On Fri, 2009-05-29 at 22:17 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> On 05/29/2009 09:41 PM, Adam Williamson wrote:
> > On Fri, 2009-05-29 at 10:53 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> 
> >>> kernel-2.6.29.4-167.fc11
> >>> ------------------------
> >>> * Wed May 27 2009 Kyle McMartin <kyle at redhat.com> 2.6.29.4-164
> >>> - drm-intel-disable-kms-i8xx.patch: disable KMS by default on 845, 855,
> >>>   and 865. It can be forced on with i915.modeset=1 boot parameter.
> 
> > 
> > So, from 163 to 167, the sum total of changes was really just the
> > addition of the patch to fix the hanging problem (and also
> > drm-intel-set-domain-on-fault.patch , which is for another bug that we
> > considered critical).
> 
> The last change on 167 says that KMS is disabled on these chipsets. You
> seem to be saying it is actually enabled by default?

You're reading it wrong - it's a double-negative.

* Wed May 27 2009 Kristian Høgsberg <krh at madara.bos.redhat.com> -
2.6.4.167
- Actually disable drm-intel-disable-kms-i8xx.patch.

krh disabled the patch that disables kms - i.e. kms is now enabled again
for i8xx.

-w