ABI breakage

[Aaron Plattner]

On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 12:00:40PM -0700, Thomas Hellstrom wrote:
> 
> On 10/14/2010 06:11 PM, Thomas Hellstrom wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > Isn't the commit
> >
> > 5c6a2f93ebc16a78093782b442306de23ae94e78
> > xfree86: Kill pixmapPrivate  with a vengeance (v2)
> >
> > a major ABI breakage (It alters the layout of the ScreenInfoRec
> > structure and also there are drivers hacking the pixmatPrivate member to
> > workaround the problem of the root pixmap's data pointer being restored
> > on enableFBAccess).
> >    
> 
> Hmm. Judging from bug 30451 this breaks a number of drivers.
> I suggest reverting this commit and, when the impact has been properly 
> investigated,
> and the change is considered worth it, re-post a patch series with 
> patches to all affected "in-tree" drivers together with a major ABI bump.

This was discussed already: http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel/2010-October/013684.html

The ABI version has already been bumped in master vs. server-1.9-branch: http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/commit/?id=1a9022d

-- Aaron