On Wed, 29 Jul 2009, Bryce Harrington wrote: > Hi all, > > Just wanted to give a quick update on where we are with X for karmic. > > -intel has been going swimmingly. The 2.8.x series has been amazingly > solid and we've been able to resolve a huge mess of bugs. For the first > time in a long, long time, -intel is no longer the video driver with the > largest number of bug reports against it. :-) > > It is possible 2.9 will be out in time for us to include it in Karmic, > however at this point I'd be very comfortable shipping 2.8 given how > solid it is, and just pull in bug fixes from the 2.9 tree. But we'll > keep an eye on developments and if 2.9 looks like a good opportunity we > can consider it later.
If possible, I'd prefer a release. We'll see. > On -ati, most of the interesting work has been going on in the > xorg-edgers PPA and the kernel team. Over the next few weeks I'm hoping > to see much of this pulled into karmic, so we can work out any remaining > kinks in KMS testing for -ati. The API is not stable yet, most likely not before 2.6.32-rc1, so it's still a moving target. That means synchronized builds of the kernel, ddx, and mesa. I don't think the api is stable before the feature freeze, but there's the possibility to grab a snapshot and stick to it (but bugfixing would be hard). > xserver 1.7 is looking late. Partly this was expected at the outset, > but I'd be more comfortable if we had a beta release we could include > for alpha-4. If we don't, should we be focusing instead on 1.6.x? > I'd love to hear other people's thoughts here. According to Peter the XI2 API is now stable, so there should be .901-releases of libxi, libx11 and inputproto soonish. Don't know how long the server is going to take. Moving API/ABI's are a pain, and the video ABI might change still, so snapshots would mean more work and rebuilds. -- Timo Aaltonen Systems Specialist IT Services, Helsinki University of Technology -- Ubuntu-x mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-x
