Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2014 10:40:17 +0200
From: Natanael Copa <ncopa@alpinelinux.org>
To: Isaac Dunham <ibid.ag@gmail.com>
Cc: alpine-devel@lists.alpinelinux.org
Subject: Re: [alpine-devel] [PATCH] linux-grsec: fix bus error with i810
 graphics
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On Mon, 9 Jun 2014 09:59:36 +0200
Natanael Copa <ncopa@alpinelinux.org> wrote:

> On Sat, 7 Jun 2014 07:39:28 -0700
> Isaac Dunham <ibid.ag@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > I just recently installed Alpine 3.0 on an old computer with 256 MB RAM,
> > 800 MHz PIII CPU, and i810 graphics; it's hooked up to a 1280x1024
> > monitor, so vesa sucks.
> > When I installed xf86-video-intel, X died from a bus error.
> > This seems to be a known problem with Linux 3.14; the included patch
> > (found online) fixed it for me.
> > 
> > Please add this; it takes several hours to build a kernel on that
> > computer.
> > The patch may need adjustment, though; patch applied it with fuzz=2.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Isaac Dunham.
> 
> nice! thanks!
> 
> Do you have any reference to upstream commit?

I found it:
https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git/commit/fs/kernfs/file.c?h=linux-3.14.y&id=59516f324f324b6b392b94833da3972e346c5f0c

I think it will come with 3.14.6 so maybe we just wait for that? (likely tomorrow)

-nc


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