On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 09:52:52AM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Armin K. wrote: > > On 06/26/2012 11:02 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > > > Hm, we might have a problem. Mesa 8.1 release is scheduled to be > > released on 17.8 according to > > http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/mesa-dev/2012-May/021473.html and > > I would like to see it in released BLFS since it brings so many > > improvements for NVidia, VMware and Intel dri and gallium drivers > > (probably radeon too, but I don't have such hardware to test it). Also, > > it is required if we want to include libdrm >> 2.4.33 for new Nouveau > > driver and other ones. I guess we could split packages in a month. I > > have one week or so to finish this exam stuff so I can help there too. > > It's just the Mesa that is bugging me. Would you agree if at least first > > 8.1 rc gets released before freeze that we add it, so we could later do > > possibly minor changes of upgrading it to stable release (yeah, that > > conflicts with package freeze, but I don't see any other option). I am > > not familiar with freeze stuff, but I guess we could not harm anything > > by upgrading to "bugfix" releases then, right? > > The reason for a freeze is so that everyone is testing the same things > and we are checking that packages fit together and run properly. We > have a couple of options here. We could make an exception for Mesa and > libdrm and add those as exceptions to the freeze period. We could also > push the projected freeze to mid August and the projected release to mid > September. > I'm in favour of delaying, or providing an exception for Mesa 8.1, libdrm, ** and the radeon driver ** - the current radeon driver is supposed to be fixed for the cairo problems, but it needs libdrm-2.4.35 and the nouveau part of Mesa-8.0 prevents that going into the book at the moment.
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