On Thu, Aug 06, 2009 at 10:22:24AM +0200, Miguel Mart??nez wrote: > Hello everybody, > > On Wed, 5 Aug 2009 15:58:10 -0700 Bryce Harrington wrote: > > The one other major X.org component left to be merged in is the new > > -ati stack, which includes updates to mesa and libdrm. Sarvatt has > > been tracking this upstream work in his packages on xorg-edgers, > > which I've taken and massaged into a standalone PPA here: > > Is that stack the one with radeon-rewrite?
Yes > Although from what I've read > things seem to march along nicely, I guess quite a few regressions may > be present in that branch right now. There was a phoronix test too not > long ago that seemed to indicate that, although things were progressing > well, there were some regressions (expected). Right, thus the need for a little further testing before this goes into Karmic. > Is it possible to include, let's say, xserver-xorg-video-radeon and > xserver-xorg-video-radeon-rewrite? I suppose the answer is no due to > the other changes in mesa and drm We wouldn't want to be supporting two variants of -ati in Karmic. It'd force end users to be making decisions they shouldn't have to be making. If we can't be reasonably confident that radeon-rewrite is ready, we shouldn't ship it. > How worthwile is it to put the radeon rewrite stuff? Would it be in > order to fix regressions with more margin looking forward to the next > LTS? Yes, that's correct. Bryce -- Ubuntu-x mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-x
