On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 08:38:21AM -0700, Keith Packard wrote: > Excerpts from Alex Deucher's message of Wed Oct 28 08:00:59 -0700 2009: > > While, I'd like to delete a lot of compat cruft in the drivers as > > well, I'm concerned about lack of user testing if we merge the > > driver back into the server. Right now it's pretty easy to get > > users try a patch, or the latest git changes, but requiring them to > > rebuild the whole xserver is a pretty daunting task, especially if > > various build requirements change along the way. If that's the case, > > it kind of negates the usefulness of being about the bisect the > > server and driver together. So I think the main issue here is > > making building the xserver less daunting. > > The key external dependencies here are protocol headers and libdrm; > does anyone have other stuff used in their driver that sees a lot of > churn?
Needing to rebuild/update libdrm/mesa has been the most notable blocker for user-testers on my end. Kernel patches that fix xorg issues have also been troublesome to get testers for, but that's probably orthogonal to this discussion. Bryce _______________________________________________ xorg-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-devel
