Matt, I care enough to join. Just point the way (link)
BTW, IBM just announced details of the forthcoming Power 7 CPU. Four cores each with quad multithreading, 4.0 Ghz. Novakovic notes in his article in Inquirer that core-for-core the new chip just about matches the EV8 - ten years later. later jn ---------- Original Message ----------- From: Matt Turner <[email protected]> To: Linux on Alpha processors <[email protected]>, [email protected], [email protected] Sent: Mon, 31 Aug 2009 20:42:16 -0400 Subject: Fwd: 1.7 and 7.5 status: we're frozen > Hi Alpha users, > > I just received the attached email from the xorg-devel list. X.Org 7.5 > (xserver-1.7) has been frozen for release. I've not been able to get > it to work on Alpha. > > I just received xserver commit access today, and I want to make sure > that X.Org 7.5 works on Alpha in time for its release - so I need > your help. > > Gentoo users: please use the x11 overlay from layman and build > xorg-server-9999 with associated dependencies. > Debian/Fedora/other: please build X.Org from git. > > I need testing of various video cards/drivers, namely > o xf86-video-ati, with[0] and without KMS > o xf86-video-glint [0] > o xf86-video-mga > > I don't care if you don't like IRC, please join for a couple days to > help us make sure that we can have a quality X.Org/Alpha release. > #alpha on Freenode. > > Additionally, there is a lot of code in the xserver to support Alphas > without BWX instructions (EV4 and EV5, EV56+ has BWX). We could > really clean up a lot of cruft by dropping support for these > systems. Also, removing this extra layer of indirection might > provide a small speed-up for BWX-enabled Alphas. > > So, does anyone care about X on EV4 or EV5 Alphas? > > I've cross-posted, so make sure you hit Reply-All. > > Thanks, > Matt Turner > > [0] http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23227 > [1] http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21546 > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Daniel Stone <[email protected]> > Date: Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 8:19 PM > Subject: 1.7 and 7.5 status: we're frozen > To: [email protected] > > Hi, > Sorry for the paucity of updates (as well as progress). > > After a chat with Peter, we decided to postpone XKB2 (yet again) to > 1.8, to give it more time to mature, as opposed to just dropping it > in the tree, and also to allow us to make any updates to Xi that may > be required after actually deploying it with 1.7. > > This means that we're not blocking on anything major for 1.7 bar > stabilisation work and bug fixes, which means ... > > XSERVER IS FROZEN. PLEASE DON'T COMMIT ANYTHING MAJOR, OR ANY API > BREAKS, WITHOUT CHECKING WITH ME AND/OR PETER FIRST. > > 1.6.99.900 will be rolled some time over the weekend, with .901 to > follow fairly shortly after that. We'll branch the server when it makes > sense -- probably pretty close to .901 or .902. > > Xi proto/libs need a final release at some stage, but most of the other > modules are looking fairly good at the moment, and indeed already > have releases. > > I'm hoping this means a final 1.7 and 7.5 release shortly before, or > during, XDC. > > If you maintain a weird platform, please get building the stack and let > us know of any problems so we can release a 7.5 that actually works > everywhere. > > As always, please let me know if you have any questions. > > Cheers, > Daniel > > _______________________________________________ > xorg-devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-devel > > -- > This message has been scanned for viruses and > dangerous content by MailScanner, and is > believed to be clean. ------- End of Original Message ------- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
