1.17 status and schedule

[Eric Anholt]

Keith Packard <keithp at keithp.com> writes:

> Ok, it's (almost) the first working day of the year, and we're supposed
> to be shipping 1.17. I think we're quite close, but I want to make sure
> everyone is ready for the release before it happens.
>
> From my list of pending patches, we've got:
>
> glamor:
>         some optimizations for lighter-weight hardware. Very useful,
>         don't seem like material for 1.17.
>
> modesetting:
>         There has been work on getting page flipping going here; given
>         that modesetting is all new functionality for 1.17, we can't
>         have any regressions, so if that code looks solid and is useful,
>         I'd be tempted to include it.

This matches how I feel.

> Beyond 1.17, if we can get a bunch of the pending glamor, modesetting
> and randr changes merged soon after the release, I'd like to consider
> doing a 1.18 release on a shorter schedule than 6 months. We've finally
> reached the point where a pile of new feature code is waiting to land
> once the merge window opens. We may be able to have a useful release
> with a very short merge window.

Yes!  I definitely have more glamor work I'm going to want to do for
VC4, and I'm reaching the point where I'm about ready to work on it.
I'd probably be working on it now, but we're not so hot at doing
review-for-next in parallel with the freeze.  A 3-months-from-now server
would be nice for us.
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