compensatory fixes for xf86-video-intel driver

[Alan Coopersmith]

On 4/15/24 02:59, Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult wrote:
> On 06.04.24 20:00, John Lumby wrote:
> 
> Hi John,
> 
>> Some tidying-up changes made in xorg/xserver in the last few months,   e.g. 
>> some shuffling in render/picturestr.h,   and one other elsewhere,   appear to 
>> have broken building of xf86-video-intel.      (Am I the last one standing who 
>> actually builds it?)
>>
>> my build platform      -   linux slackware64-current-15.1 with :
>> GNU libc stable release version 2.39
>> gcc 13.2.0
>> binutils e.g. GNU ld version 2.42-slack151
> 
> <snip>
> 
> This already had been cleaned up in xfree86-video-intel few month ago,
> but maybe it's maintainer just didn't pick the patches yet (or not
> released yet).

If you look at https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-video-intel
you will see that they don't accept MR's, have only merged a handful of
commits since 2020 (the last ones over a year ago), and not made a new
release since 2014.

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