Release criteria for X11 releases

[Dave Airlie]

On 9/27/07, Aaron Plattner <aplattner at nvidia.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 06:50:44PM +1000, Dave Airlie wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Was making our already-delayed release date so important that the
> > > > lessened quality of the release was worth it?   Is this good enough
> > > > for an X.Org final release or do we want to go back to the higher bars
> > > > of our previous release criteria for future releases?
> > > >
> > > > (Wearing my distributor hat, we've decided this one isn't fully cooked
> > > >   yet, and we're waiting for Xserver 1.4.1 before inflicting this on our
> > > >   users.   I don't know if other distributors feel 7.3 is ready to ship
> > > >   or not.)
> > >
> > > We had a small informal discussion with a couple of people at XDS2007.
> > >
> > > My main concern as a distributor (OpenBSD), is the lack of coherence
> > > (and information) on the level of XRandR 1.2 support in the various
> > > drivers. This is probably going to hurt several users who had working
> > > pre xrandr setups.
> > >
> >
> > As far as I know in Xorg 7.3 only one driver supports randr 1.2 that
> > being the Intel driver, the released ATI driver is still 6.6.3 which
>
> Not quite: X.org 7.3 shipped with xf86-video-nv 2.1.3, which supports RandR
> 1.2 for GeForce 8 series GPUs.
>

Sorry, yes nv did support it but it was a brand new feature not
something that would've regressed considering we never had support for
G80 and we don't have support for dual-head nv chips in any previous
release.

Dave.