Linux 3.6-rc2 Kernel Released: Ignoring The Big & Scary

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Linux 3.6-rc2 Kernel Released: Ignoring The Big & Scary

Linus Torvalds put out the second release candidate for the Linux 3.6 kernel after allowing two weeks for its development but ignoring the "unnecessarily big and scary" changes...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTE2MTg

[ryszardzonk]

If You guys didn't notice there one nice one that has made it in

drm/radeon/kms: add MSAA texture support for r600-evergreen

[madbiologist]

This also looks like it might fix the broken display on the retina MacBook Pro.From the changelog:

Merge branch 'drm-intel-fixes' of git://people.freedesktop.org/~danvet/drm-intel into drm-fixes

Daniel Vetter writes:

"A few important fixers:
<SNIP>
- make the retina mbp work (ignore bogus edp bpc value in vbt)
<SNIP>
"

and:

author Daniel Vetter
Fri, 10 Aug 2012 09:10:20 +0000 (11:10 +0200)
committer Daniel Vetter
Sat, 11 Aug 2012 19:42:52 +0000 (21:42 +0200)
commit 4344b813f105a19f793f1fd93ad775b784648b95
tree f134624a5e29ba31044ae0a9997f274426774531
parent 770c12312ad617172b1a65b911d3e6564fc5aca8

drm/i915: ignore eDP bpc settings from vbt

This has originally been introduced to not oversubscribe the dp links
in

commit 885a5fb5b120a5c7e0b3baad7b0feb5a89f76c18
Author: Zhenyu Wang
Date: Tue Jan 12 05:38:31 2010 +0800

drm/i915: fix pixel color depth setting on eDP

Since then we've fixed up the dp link bandwidth calculation code and
should now automatically fall back to 6bpc dithering. So this is
unnecessary.

Furthermore it seems to break the new MacbookPro with retina display,
hence let's just rip this out.

Reported-by: Benoit Gschwind
Cc: Benoit Gschwind
Cc: Francois Rigaut
Cc: Greg KH
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Tested-by: Benoit Gschwind
Tested-by: Bernhard Froemel
Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter

--

Testing feedback highgly welcome, and thanks for Benoit for finding
out that the bpc computations are busted.
-Daniel

And best of all, this has been cc'd to stable, so it will almost certainly turn up in the 3.5 kernel series soon.

[ryszardzonk]

do You guys know if those patches for Intel have made it in for these or any previous kernel?

http://lists.freedesktop.org/archive...er/016556.html