Hi Timo, On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 12:49:49PM +0300, Timo Aaltonen wrote: > Mesa has a standing MRE, but upstream changed their release cadence > last year from a major release every 6 months to less-major releases > every 3 months..
> Now with trusty we're in a less-than-optimal situation that support for > Intel Broadwell will be completed in the next release scheduled for May > 30th, while trusty has 10.1 from late February. Trying to backport > support for BDW to 10.1 has proven to get out of control pretty quick > with 50+ commits and counting, and still seeing brokenness not on master. > So I'm asking if it would be possible to have an exception with mesa, > allowing a bigger update to land as SRU after sufficient testing for > regressions has been done on both T+1 and -proposed. We have piglit as a > test suite to spot obvious regressions, and ways to gather wider testing > from the community when it's looking good enough from our side. > This would allow a more sane way to provide BDW support in 14.04.1 than > backporting a big pile of commits and maintaining the franken-mesa > ourselves.. Is 14.04.1 the right time frame to be targetting Broadwell support, or should we be aiming for 14.04.2 instead? I.e., would this fit better the normal point release hardware enablement stack process? I am in general not happy with the idea of all users being given a new version of mesa via SRU, because it's very difficult to ensure that the package doesn't introduce regressions. "Community testing" is always self-selecting, and for a package with as broad an impact as this, I don't think it will be adequately tested without an explicit test plan that details our hardware coverage. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ [email protected] [email protected]
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