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[Brian Rogers <brian@xxxxxxxx>]

The invisible cursor fix will be sent to stable and make it into
Maverick that way. I don't know if it will make it in before release,
though.

As for the stability fix, Daniel Vetter has said the following:

"I haven't upstreamed the patch for a few reasons:
- It's an extremely ugly approach, involving way too much duct-tape. Now if it would actually reliably work, but that's not the case.
- It has (under certain circumstances) rather severe performance implications (mostly because the eviction code is not clever enough).
Hence why I'm not satisfied and of the opinion that upstreaming might cause more harm than good. Different story for distros, though.

I have a few ideas as how to amend this, but that requires a complete
rewrite of the gtt code. I've finally found time to start hacking on
this [...]"

Complete comment here:
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27187#c233

So it's not planned to go into 2.6.35.x, but it could be picked up
individually by distros. A better patch will eventually be made for
future kernels and sent upstream.

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