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[Bryce Harrington <bryce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 11:52:23AM +0200, Timo Aaltonen wrote:
> 19.02.2013 16:54, Bryce Harrington kirjoitti:
> > Hi Timo,
> > 
> > I was browsing through red hat's patches.  Most are either not relevant
> > or we already have them, but I wasn't sure about these:
> 
> ok, let's see
> 
> >     http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/xorg-x11-server.git/tree/0001-Always-install-vbe-and-int10-sdk-headers.patch
> 
> Not sure what these are for tbh?

I wasn't sure either, and no bug ref.  It feels like an oldish patch.

> >     http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/xorg-x11-server.git/tree/0001-mieq-Bump-default-queue-size-to-512.patch
> 
> Apparently their abrt tool is quite trigger-happy and catching these
> notifications as errors? AIUI apport only catches crashes, so this patch
> wouldn't change things on ubuntu?

The apport gpu hook also catches freezes, and I'd certainly characterize
it as trigger-happy (grep LP for 'False GPU lockup').  I'm wondering if
this might help.

> >     http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/xorg-x11-server.git/tree/0002-hw-xfree86-Require-only-one-working-CRTC-to-start-th.patch
> 
> We have this from upstream (and not applied in the .spec anymore)

Thanks, missed that.
 
> >     http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/xorg-x11-server.git/tree/0001-xf86-return-NULL-for-compat-output-if-no-outputs.patch
> 
> hmm, wonder why this isn't upstream.. Maarten, could you check this?
> 
> >     http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/xorg-x11-server.git/tree/v2-xf86-Fix-non-PCI-configuration-less-setups.patch
> 
> commented out from the .spec file as "broken" :)

Interesting.
 
> I'd like to add xserver-1.6.0-less-acpi-brokenness.patch, the xserver
> doesn't need to build any acpi code..

Sounds good, thanks.

Bryce