[Xorg-driver-geode] last call for testing: X.org Geode2.11.9 release candidate

[Huang, FrankR]

Mart,

	Please spend some time help Hunk solve this issue:P
	Any guide is appreciated.


Thanks,
Frank

> -----Original Message-----
> From: xorg-driver-geode-bounces+frankr.huang=amd.com at lists.x.org
> [mailto:xorg-driver-geode-bounces+frankr.huang=amd.com at lists.x.org] On
> Behalf Of Mart Raudsepp
> Sent: 2010年8月16日 15:03
> To: q-funk at iki.fi
> Cc: Geode Mailing List; Bernardo Innocenti; Andres Salomon
> Subject: Re: [Xorg-driver-geode] last call for testing: X.org Geode2.11.9
> release candidate
> 
> On E, 2010-08-16 at 09:51 +0300, Mart Raudsepp wrote:
> > On E, 2010-08-16 at 09:49 +0300, Martin-Éric Racine wrote:
> > > On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 9:36 AM, Mart Raudsepp <leio at gentoo.org> wrote:
> > > > On L, 2010-08-14 at 11:32 +0300, Martin-Éric Racine wrote:
> > > >> Greetings,
> > > >>
> > > >> As recently announced, we now have a release candidate for the
> X.org
> > > >> Geode 2.11.9 video driver. [1] Please test
> > > >> it extensively and immediately report any significant regression
> > > >> directly into the X.org Bugzilla. [2] If nothing major gets
> reported
> > > >> during this weekend, we'll release what we currently have in GIT by
> > > >> Monday morning.
> > > >
> > > > Looks like the rotation code isn't quite perfect yet.
> > > >
> > > > Before doing any rotation:
> > > >
> > > > http://dev.gentoo.org/~leio/xorg/geode-before-rotation-20100816.png
> > > >
> > > > After rotating to inverted mode, and then (importantly) back to
> normal
> > > > mode:
> > > >
> > > > http://dev.gentoo.org/~leio/xorg/geode-after-rotation-20100816.png
> > > >
> > > > Notice all icon images missing again, various glyphs turned to
> vertical
> > > > lines and a broken openbox panel black/grey gradient on the bottom.
> > > >
> > > > It seems that right after the rotation patch at commit 8a61ef8f, the
> > > > problem is already present.
> > > >
> > > > I would consider this a release blocker for a while. OTOH, rotation
> > > > didn't work at all with xserver-1.7+ before, so I guess it depends
> on
> > > > how quick we can find a solution for this, and if xserver-1.6 (where
> > > > rotation worked before) is affected by this.
> > >
> > > Thanks for reporting this.
> > >
> > > Since OLPC are the main user for this feature, I would have
> > > appreciated receiving feedback from them earlier than this.
> >
> > Bernie's feedback just now was that it works fine. But just asked to
> > test what happens after going back to normal mode, as that's where the
> > problem appears - after destroying of the scratch pixmap header that was
> > created upon entering rotated mode.
> >
> > Also on XO-1 things were working fine before, as the reserved memory
> > approach we had before didn't trigger any issues with xserver-1.6, that
> > is used on the XO-1 FC-11 images, but didn't work at all since
> > xserver-1.7+.
> 
> 
> Just to be more clear:
> 
> Rotation works _fine_ with xf86-video-geode-2.11.8 + xserver-1.6(!), so
> if this change breaks it on xserver-1.6 too (which XO-1 uses), then it's
> a regression worth fixing.
> 
> And I'm pretty sure a fix is not hard, after having debugged the issue a
> bit. I'm rather confident I can get it fixed within a couple hours, but
> I need to go to earn my salary now. Maybe Hunk can get it fixed today
> before me too.
> 
> Mart
> 
> >
> > > Personally, given how rotation has already been broken for quite some
> > > time, I don't consider this breakage as a good enough reason to avoid
> > > releasing as planned. Instead, I would hope that our AMD developers
> > > could be sent their own XO-1 to work with, along with a URL to
> > > instructions on how to build our driver for the OLPC and on how to
> > > install it onto the laptop's filesystem. I would also hope to see
> > > continuous feedback from the OLPC developer community towards ensuring
> > > that our driver keeps on working on the XO-1.
> > >
> > > Martin-Éric
> >
> >
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