Jeremy Huddleston <jerem...@apple.com> writes: >> That's quite easy to fix. Too bad that this problem was brought up on >> xorg-devel mailing list a few weeks too late for overlapped pixman_blt >> to be introduced in pixman 0.22.0. My main concern earlier was about >> how to use the newly added pixman features in xserver and provide a >> smooth upgrade path without breaking anything. But now I understand >> that it just requires adding this feature to pixman, then wait till >> the next stable pixman version 0.24.0 goes out, then add the needed >> changes to xserver to use this feature and bump the required pixman >> version to 0.24.0 at the same time. And finally the users will be able >> to enjoy faster non-hardware accelerated scrolling after the next >> stable xserver version gets released and adopted by linux distros. >> Right? > > Yeah, that's about right. Get it into pixman-0.23.x. Once we > actually have a 0.23.x release of pixman, we can add that > functionality to xserver master with appropriate dependency-foo added > to configure.ac.
Right - the X server can depend on an unstable version of pixman as long as the stable pixman will come out before a stable X server, so - add feature to pixman 0.23.x - release 0.23.2 - add feature to X server would be the procedure. > Looking at past release cycles, my guess is that 0.24 will be out > around the same time as xorg-server-1.11, so I don't think there will > be any objections to such a dependency... Soren, can you please > confirm my assumptions here =) As far as pixman is concerned, it has more or less kept a six month release cycle, which would put 0.24 around November 2011. However, I'd be fine with a short 0.24 release coming out in August if that's useful. I think Keith said that the merge window for 1.11 closes May 29th though, so there may not be enough time. Soren _______________________________________________ xorg-devel@lists.x.org: X.Org development Archives: http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel Info: http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-devel