[Xorg-driver-geode] last call for testing: X.org Geode 2.11.9 release candidate

[Huang, FrankR]

Martin-Éric,

	For the OLPC stuff, it is very easy to purchase or to get right now?
	I'll ask Kevin if they have some already.

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 Martin-éric Racine
> Sent: 2010年8月16日 14:49
> To: Mart Raudsepp
> Cc: Geode Mailing List; Bernardo Innocenti; Andres Salomon
> Subject: Re: [Xorg-driver-geode] last call for testing: X.org Geode 2.11.9
> release candidate
> 
> 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.
> 
> 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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