[Gta04-owner] v3.16-rc6

[Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller]

Hi,

Am 23.07.2014 um 13:30 schrieb Neil Jerram:

> On 2014-07-23 11:17, Christ van Willegen wrote:
>> On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 12:02 PM, Neil Jerram <neil at ossau.homelinux.net> wrote:
>>> On 2014-07-23 10:40, Belisko Marek wrote:
>>>> Some time ago I did fix to avoid segfauls in X. Is this fix is
>>>> included in your kernel:
>>>> http://projects.goldelico.com/p/gta04-kernel/issues/586/
>>> Well, that issue doesn't point to a specific patch or commit, so I'm not
>>> sure.  But I'm using the Goldelico kernel source, so I presume I already
>>> have that fix.
>> Commit is (probably) 303e4697e762dc92a40405f4e4b8
> 
> That's the commit that _caused_ the problem.  What I meant is that the issue doesn't point to the commit that _fixes_ the problem.
> 
> But in any case, as I wrote before:
> - I'm using the Goldelico 3.16-rc5 source, which surely should include whatever the fix is.
> - I'm seeing a different problem from what that issue describes.

Well, the problem might be related but is not exactly the same.

Without the commit, X.org does not even start. This is because it has some built-in assumptions
about the /sysfs that is to be used.

Since we have a 3.16 kernel now, these assumptions do no longer hold. And without recompiling
the Xserver binary, it would not match. Therefore the patch to make it start.

But there may be other problems based on the same reason. But not solved by the patch.

On the other hand the same Xorg installation worked fine up to 3.13 or 3.14 kernel if compiled
without device tree and old style board file (since then we didn't test any more).

Or there is a (new) bug/incompatibility in the fbdev driver.

BR,
Nikolaus