test intel git repo, with modesetting

[Alan Hourihane]

On Thu, 2006-04-06 at 19:26 -0400, Adam Jackson wrote:
> On Thursday 06 April 2006 18:14, Keith Packard wrote:
> > Let's ask Ajax whether he cares; the 7.1 is a katamari, so he shouldn't
> > be pulling anything but tarballs for the i810 driver. I think what we
> > need to do is figure out what we want for the 7.1 release and make sure
> > ajax has that release.
> 
> Mmm, yes and no.
> 
> So we can split the phases here if we want.  If there's stuff that needs to go 
> into the driver for 7.1, I'll defer to expert opinion about which code train 
> is most appropriate.  And if the maintainership for a given module wants to 
> handle stabilizing it directly, that's fine too, subject to getting it 
> delivered enough in advance of the release date that we can do final smoke 
> testing - three days to a week, say.
> 
> But if I'm handed a tarball - or more accurately, a tag - I'll still need to 
> distcheck from that with the magic release fu enabled so the tarball gets 
> named the right thing, and tag that instant in time as being "the 7.1 
> release".  The alternative is to tag and release the module on the katamari 
> day itself, which is what I'll be doing for every other module anyway.  It's 
> about the same amount of work for me either way.
> 
> I don't particularly care which repo I pull from.
> 
> So I guess the answer is, if you want to stabilize and bless it yourself, you 
> need to deliver earlier, and hope that the rest of the world doesn't break 
> you in the final week.

Thanks for the followup ajax. 

Having just the git repo, and a README in the old CVS i810 driver to say
"go get it from here...." will suffice I think.

Alan.