diff --git a/packages/linux/patches/nouveau-8628f55e551ba2d19b25d9d8ab5a62b1a42ed05d.diff b/packages/linux/patches/nouveau-8628f55e551ba2d19b25d9d8ab5a62b1a42ed05d.diff
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..8a2e4b0b4b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/linux/patches/nouveau-8628f55e551ba2d19b25d9d8ab5a62b1a42ed05d.diff
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+From 8628f55e551ba2d19b25d9d8ab5a62b1a42ed05d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Francisco Jerez <currojerez@riseup.net>
+Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2010 19:55:23 +0000
+Subject: drm/nouveau: Use lazy fence waits when doing software interchannel sync.
+
+Signed-off-by: Francisco Jerez <currojerez@riseup.net>
+---
+diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_fence.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_fence.c
+index 5f9f66f..0a22955 100644
+--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_fence.c
++++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_fence.c
+@@ -390,7 +390,7 @@ nouveau_fence_sync(struct nouveau_fence *fence,
+ 	if (!sema) {
+ 		/* Early card or broken userspace, fall back to
+ 		 * software sync. */
+-		return nouveau_fence_wait(fence, NULL, false, false);
++		return nouveau_fence_wait(fence, NULL, true, false);
+ 	}
+ 
+ 	/* try to take chan's mutex, if we can't take it right away
+@@ -399,7 +399,7 @@ nouveau_fence_sync(struct nouveau_fence *fence,
+ 	 */
+ 	if (!mutex_trylock(&chan->mutex)) {
+ 		free_semaphore(&sema->ref);
+-		return nouveau_fence_wait(fence, NULL, false, false);
++		return nouveau_fence_wait(fence, NULL, true, false);
+ 	}
+ 
+ 	/* Make wchan wait until it gets signalled */
+--
+cgit v0.8.3-6-g21f6
diff --git a/packages/linux/patches/nouveau-e4de0c7b8333ad4e18d09041aa3db307e637afd5.diff b/packages/linux/patches/nouveau-e4de0c7b8333ad4e18d09041aa3db307e637afd5.diff
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..d8964fa530
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/linux/patches/nouveau-e4de0c7b8333ad4e18d09041aa3db307e637afd5.diff
@@ -0,0 +1,43 @@
+From e4de0c7b8333ad4e18d09041aa3db307e637afd5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Ben Skeggs <bskeggs@redhat.com>
+Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2010 02:34:04 +0000
+Subject: drm/nv50: remove some unnecessary PDISPLAY init
+
+Signed-off-by: Ben Skeggs <bskeggs@redhat.com>
+---
+diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nv50_display.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nv50_display.c
+index 11d366a..de5ca17 100644
+--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nv50_display.c
++++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nv50_display.c
+@@ -218,9 +218,9 @@ nv50_display_init(struct drm_device *dev)
+ 	struct nouveau_gpio_engine *pgpio = &dev_priv->engine.gpio;
+ 	struct nouveau_channel *evo = dev_priv->evo;
+ 	struct drm_connector *connector;
+-	uint32_t val, ram_amount;
+-	uint64_t start;
+ 	int ret, i;
++	u64 start;
++	u32 val;
+ 
+ 	NV_DEBUG_KMS(dev, "\n");
+ 
+@@ -262,17 +262,6 @@ nv50_display_init(struct drm_device *dev)
+ 		nv_wr32(dev, NV50_PDISPLAY_DAC_CLK_CTRL1(i), 0x00000001);
+ 	}
+ 
+-	/* This used to be in crtc unblank, but seems out of place there. */
+-	nv_wr32(dev, NV50_PDISPLAY_UNK_380, 0);
+-	/* RAM is clamped to 256 MiB. */
+-	ram_amount = dev_priv->vram_size;
+-	NV_DEBUG_KMS(dev, "ram_amount %d\n", ram_amount);
+-	if (ram_amount > 256*1024*1024)
+-		ram_amount = 256*1024*1024;
+-	nv_wr32(dev, NV50_PDISPLAY_RAM_AMOUNT, ram_amount - 1);
+-	nv_wr32(dev, NV50_PDISPLAY_UNK_388, 0x150000);
+-	nv_wr32(dev, NV50_PDISPLAY_UNK_38C, 0);
+-
+ 	/* The precise purpose is unknown, i suspect it has something to do
+ 	 * with text mode.
+ 	 */
+--
+cgit v0.8.3-6-g21f6
diff --git a/packages/linux/patches/nouveau-f81788f1e998ee262fca83b88e3db79bafa3c13c.diff b/packages/linux/patches/nouveau-f81788f1e998ee262fca83b88e3db79bafa3c13c.diff
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..217599ca4a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/linux/patches/nouveau-f81788f1e998ee262fca83b88e3db79bafa3c13c.diff
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+From f81788f1e998ee262fca83b88e3db79bafa3c13c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Francisco Jerez <currojerez@riseup.net>
+Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2010 18:37:56 +0000
+Subject: drm/nouveau: Leave BO eviction synchronization for later.
+
+The pushbuf ioctl syncs after validation, no need for this anymore.
+
+Signed-off-by: Francisco Jerez <currojerez@riseup.net>
+---
+diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_bo.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_bo.c
+index c663e87..0c35d38 100644
+--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_bo.c
++++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_bo.c
+@@ -483,15 +483,8 @@ nouveau_bo_move_accel_cleanup(struct nouveau_channel *chan,
+ 	if (ret)
+ 		return ret;
+ 
+-	if (nvbo->channel) {
+-		ret = nouveau_fence_sync(fence, nvbo->channel);
+-		if (ret)
+-			goto out;
+-	}
+-
+ 	ret = ttm_bo_move_accel_cleanup(&nvbo->bo, fence, NULL, evict,
+ 					no_wait_reserve, no_wait_gpu, new_mem);
+-out:
+ 	nouveau_fence_unref((void *)&fence);
+ 	return ret;
+ }
+--
+cgit v0.8.3-6-g21f6