Bug#494007: old patch for drivers/char/drm/r128_cce.c

[Robert Millan <rmh@aybabtu.com>]

Hi,

It appears that Nathanael sent a patch to implement user handling of
r128_cce.c, I found it by digging in the #242866 meta-bug:

  http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=242866#33

It'd most likely need some work to get it updated, but the major barrier
is that it was applied in 2004 and had to be reverted because it caused
problems with X:

  http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=242866#73

unfortunately there's no reference to where are those problems documented,
and I don't have the hardware to test myself.  So first of all I'd like to
know if someone has more information about them, and whether they have been
fixed or not (Nathanael mentions in the bug log that he was going to try).

Or, if someone has access to the affected hardware and can test things, I'd
like to know about that too.

Thanks

-- 
Robert Millan

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