#1504: Nouveau bugfixes and important enhancement

[Fedora Release Engineering]

#1504: Nouveau bugfixes and important enhancement
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 Reporter:  bskeggs          |       Owner:  rel-eng at lists.fedoraproject.org
     Type:  task             |      Status:  new                            
Milestone:  Fedora 11 Final  |   Component:  koji                           
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 There's two packages related to the nouveau driver with recent changes
 that are important for the release, the builds are:

 libdrm-2.4.6-6.fc11
  - two bugfixes, one critical and will result in random hangs on some
 systems

 xorg-x11-drv-nouveau-0.0.12-29.20090417gitfa2f111.fc11
  - fixes the bug which triggers the critical bug in libdrm
  - framebuffer resize support (rh#495838, rh#487356, and lots of
 duplicates)
    - technically an enhancement, however it appears that a lot of users
 find this
      to be an important feature to have.
    - all codepaths impacted by the change have been tested by me across a
 number
      of different GPUs, and appears to be safe.
  - speed up transition to gdm when kernel modesetting enabled
    - was done by the CPU previously, which could take a couple of seconds
 previously,
      and users would see their screen being visibly redrawn on some mode
 switches.
      This change is non-invasive, only enabled when experimental kernel
 modesetting
      is enabled, and provides a much nicer experience.

 Please accept? :)

 Ben.

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