On 26 July 2010 14:41, Jason Wessel <[email protected]> wrote: > On 07/25/2010 09:34 PM, Pedro Ribeiro wrote: >> Can someone please point me which patches I need to add to 2.6.35-rc6 >> to have kdb + kms? Is there any documented problem with them? >> > > There was an off list discussion with myself, Dave Airlie and Jesse > Barnes about this a few days prior to the 2.6.34 merge window. The KMS > patches were entire dropped from the final Linus pull requests for > several reasons. > > * The atomic kernel mode setting path was not stable without mutex > exception paths where the kgdb path was allowed to "violate" certain mutex. > > * Dave wanted the atomic mode setting API to have the callbacks in a > different level of the graphics stack > > * There were still open issues with the keyboard handlers and sysrq > trapping where no agreement had been reached between the need of the > kernel debugger to slightly change the input vs opinion of the Input > maintainers. > > That means the KMS <-> KDB integration work moved back to the RFC status > and at the moment there is no working set of patches for the 2.6.35 stream. > > Jason. >
Thanks for the heads up. Hopefully this will be merged in 2.6.36. Its seems like an amazing feature! Congrats on your work. Regards, Pedro ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Palm PDK Hot Apps Program offers developers who use the Plug-In Development Kit to bring their C/C++ apps to Palm for a share of $1 Million in cash or HP Products. Visit us here for more details: http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;226879339;13503038;l? http://clk.atdmt.com/CRS/go/247765532/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Kgdb-bugreport mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/kgdb-bugreport
