Seems the patch is already available in the Karmic kernel git tree also.
Marking this Fix Released against the kernel.
ogasaw...@emiko:~/ubuntu-karmic$ git log -p
2a34f5e6b61c7e8f3b6f25847bcda88511b0ead4
commit 2a34f5e6b61c7e8f3b6f25847bcda88511b0ead4
Author: Eric Anholt <e...@anholt.net>
Date: Thu Jul 2 09:30:50 2009 -0700
drm/i915: Disable GEM when a broken video BIOS takes up the whole aperture.
This is seen on some G41 systems, where the BIOS will consume all but
a few KB of the aperture. This should be bad for all operating systems, as
it means that the OS can't dynamically manage memory between graphics and
the rest of the system, and OSes that did static memory management
statically add memory in addition to the BIOS allocation anyway. So,
instead
of working around it, just fail out verbosely.
fd.o bug #21574
Signed-off-by: Eric Anholt <e...@anholt.net>
Reviewed-by: Ian Romanick <ian.d.roman...@intel.com>
** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu)
Status: Triaged => Fix Released
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[i915] DRM_I915_ENTERVT failed (SIGSEGV) (UXA bug)
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/363305
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