On Tue, 2009-06-30 at 13:04 -0700, Ian Romanick wrote: > > Michel Dänzer wrote: > > On Mon, 2009-06-29 at 16:03 -0700, Keith Packard wrote: > >> Thanks to Ajax for moving the DRI2 changes into the 1.6 branch, now I've > >> pulled the remaining queued patches and have pushed this as 1.6.1.902 > >> (1.6.2 RC2). If no-one finds any catastrophic bugs, [...] > > > > How about: The DRI2 changes seem to break the video driver ABI, and > > apparently Mesa without corresponding changes (which will only be in the > > upcoming 7.5 release) as well. See Brice Goglin's report from a couple > > of days ago. > > > > You rejected backports before based on breaking ABI. > > > > Don't get me wrong, I like the functionality those DRI2 changes fix, but > > surely they could have been done without breaking about every binary > > interface involved. If the video driver ABI won't be restored, this > > Actually, the bug in question could not. This was discussed quite a bit > on the mailing list and on IRC. The original DRI2 interface was > deficient and could not be made to work. So I fixed it. > > > should be reflected by bumping its major version, and the changes > > breaking it should wait for the next major release like other such > > changes. > > The change is in the DRI2 interface, and that version was changed. > Without the corresponding updates the only thing you lose is DRI2. > Reverting to DRI1 should still work. Since this affects only the Intel > driver, and we will have a fixed driver release around the same time as > the X server release, I don't think this is a catastrophic problem.
You're probably right, glad it's not really an ABI breakage after all. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer | http://www.vmware.com Libre software enthusiast | Debian, X and DRI developer _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg
