Will like to see some action on ScreenWakeupHandlerProcPtr related patch

Alan Coopersmith alan.coopersmith at oracle.com
Mon Dec 17 23:31:12 UTC 2018


On 12/17/18 03:09 PM, Kevin Brace wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I posted a small patch related to ScreenWakeupHandlerProcPtr several days ago.
> 
> https://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel/2018-December/057793.html
> https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/268118/
> 
> I usually limit my work to DDXs, so this is the first time I generated a patch for X Server itself.
> I believe this patch applies to X Server 1.19 and 1.20.
> In particular, I will like to see the patch backported to the future X Server 1.19.7 maintenance release since it affects S3 Savage DDX.
> Furthermore, is X Server 1.19.7 going to be released soon?
> I hope the patch gets incorporated into that release.

Isn't that an ABI break which will break every other driver?  (At least on 
64-bit systems where unsigned long is twice the size of int.)

We don't do those in stable releases like 1.19.x.

-- 
	-Alan Coopersmith-               alan.coopersmith at oracle.com
	 Oracle Solaris Engineering - https://blogs.oracle.com/alanc


More information about the xorg-devel mailing list