On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 11:34 AM, Julien Cristau <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 11:27:28 -0400, Matt Turner wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Thanks for the report. I was getting the exact same failure as you. >> >> The crash happens in xf86SlowBCopyFromBus, which seems to be totally >> useless. So I killed that code: >> http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/commit/?id=5ef53a94ce4e48e11de26290cd677266308640c8 >> >> If anyone finds that it's needed on some systems, let me know and >> we'll figure out something. Otherwise, that code is gone from >> xserver-1.7 and shouldn't cause any more problems. >> >> I don't know if anyone is planning another 1.6.x release, but if they >> are, they might consider cherry-picking that commit. >> > It can probably be cherry-picked to our package in any case, if someone > confirms that it's enough to make things work. > > Cheers, > Julien >
Unfortunately, it's not. It just gets you past that segfault. I might have further broken sparse mapping support with it as well. We just need to get to a point where _something_ works on Alpha, and then we'll go back and fix sparse. Matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
