On Mar 01, 2012, at 01:59 PM, Nathan Stratton Treadway wrote:

>I think the new Wiki page (and link to it from the message) is very
>helpful.

Great!

>After looking over this discussion (and the one in LP #i774999) it seems
>to me worth wording the warning in a way that makes the long-term status
>of the i8xx chips clear, rather than mentioning each specific Ubuntu
>version individually...

Excellent idea.

>Also, while I have no idea how often this hardware shows up on machines
>being used as a server, given that the warning message does show up the
>context of a "do-release-upgrade" I think it's worth having the message
>explicitely say that the warning only applies to X Windows, so users
>upgrading a non-X server can proceed with the upgrade without even
>needing to look at the Wiki page.
>
>I'll try to pull together a proposed wording for all that shortly.

Thanks, that would be very helpful.

>(One other note on your bug-941172 branch: not sure if you left it in
>the branch on purpose, but I noticed that there is a "True or" still
>added in the "if" statement....)

Yep, intentional since I have no i8xx hardware to test it on. ;)

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