Next steps for pci-rework branches

Ian Romanick idr at us.ibm.com
Wed Aug 9 09:47:57 PDT 2006


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Jesse Barnes wrote:
> On Wednesday, August 9, 2006 9:21 am, Ian Romanick wrote:
>>
>> My dream is that we can move this over to the trunk immediately
>> *after* 7.2 ships.  Given the magnitude of these changes, I'm guessing
>> it will be the driving factor of 7.3 or 8.0 or whatever we call the
>> release after 7.2.  Opinions?
> 
> Sounds good to me as long as we get the major drivers converted (intel, 
> ati, nv, mga, sis, via) and get it a little soak time.  Merging it over 
> to the main tree should make some of the other cleanups a little easier 
> too.

My thinking is that the sooner we merge it over, the sooner people will
convert their drivers and report bugs.  Beyond a certain point, sitting
in a branch doesn't help.  Even waiting until 7.2 ships allows a month
or two of soak time.
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