Xorg 7.4 release plan

Wed Feb 27 11:08:13 PST 2008

On Wed, 2008-02-27 at 11:26 -0500, Adam Jackson wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-02-26 at 11:17 -0800, Dan Nicholson wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 11:06 AM, Adam Jackson <ajax at redhat.com> wrote:
> > >
> > >  February 29: Branch 1.4.99.901, no new features
> > 
> > Out of curiosity, which version of mesa is being targeted? I would
> > assume master since that's what you've been using in Rawhide. In that
> > case, does a mesa release need to be coordinated? I guess this depends
> > on DRI2.
> 
> Aah, the Mesa question.  I love this part.

me too 

> 
> DRI2, unlike pciaccess, is not a complete switchover.  Both the DDX and
> the DRI driver can implement support for either or both of DRI1 and
> DRI2, so it's not blocking the release in the sense of "we can't ship
> until this works".
> 
> I believe, though have not tested, that Mesa 7.0.x can be used to build
> the GLX support in current xserver, though obviously that won't get you
> DRI2 support.  I would be thrilled to have a Mesa 7.1 release in time
> for xserver 1.5, but I don't know how this aligns with Brian's plans for
> the world.

Brian made his point , before Mesa 7.1, we need libdrm 3.0 released  

> 
> Of course, in my truly ideal world, we would build libGLcore.so from
> Mesa, and then you wouldn't need the Mesa source at xserver build time
> at all.  Why has no one implemented this for me yet?
> 
> - ajax

-- 
Sérgio M. B.
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