Candidate "paper cut" bugs for a new 8.2.x release?

[Paul Fox]

noiseehc wrote:
 > Hi!
 > 
 > I do not know what was the conclusion about this _completely 
 > hypothetical_ case but does fixing the Geode VGA driver match the "paper 
 > cut" criteria?

probably only if it affects current deployments.  but good fixes
for the XO-1 are certainly welcome, since they may be applicable
to F11-on-XO1, etc.

 > 
 > Since I am porting (very slowly since 2 months ago I did not know 
 > anything at all about the Linux boot process for example) Android to the 
 > XO-1 there were some display errors. Android uses FBIOPUT_VSCREENINFO to 
 > flip (and not blit!!!) between two frames in video memory and without a 
 > patched Geode FB driver it causes a very awful flicker since the Geode 
 > FB driver turns off the video output then sets params then turns on the 
 > video output. Similar flicker can be seen on the XO when Sugar wakes up 
 > from a frozen DCON so possibly my fix would be applicable here as well.

if we're talking about the same frozen DCON flicker, that's
because a h/w problem in the DCON keeps us from properly
synchronizing when we start things up.  (i.e., it's unrelated to
your work, i believe.)

 > 
 > If fixing the driver is desirable then probably I could fix the other 
 > Geode driver bug, the video overlay fuckup during wakeup. My little 

now now.  this is a family list.

 > question is this: does anybody know how and where the sleep happens? Is 
 > the video output turned off in the FB or the X driver? Is the FB driver 
 > used at all when the X driver takes control?
 > 
 > ps:
 > The attached file is not a patch but a VERY ugly "fix" for trying... :) 
 > Of course I will create a normal patch which can be pushed upstream but 
 > only if it is needed...

patches are always easier to read, and are the preferred way of getting
someone to take a look at your code.

paul
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 paul fox, pgf at laptop.org