[PATCH] candidate patches for server-1.5-branch inclusion

[Maarten Maathuis]

On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 6:27 PM, Maarten Maathuis <madman2003 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 5:57 PM, Rémi Cardona <remi at gentoo.org> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Here's a branch with all the patches that we currently plan on shipping
>> in Gentoo.
>>
>> http://www.lri.fr/~cardona/git/xserver.git (server-1.5-branch)
>>
>> The first 37 patches are backports from git master, basically all the
>> patches that touched exa/ since the branching for 1.5. Only a few got
>> thrown out :
>>  - those that only touched shmPutImage() and friends
>>  - the patch that modifies the devPrivates
>>
>> With this branch, "git diff --stat server-1.5-branch..master exa/"
>> reports only 4 insertions and 2 deletions.
>>
>> It also includes a backport of a build fix, and another patch that fixes
>> a build issue with KDrive's Xvesa with newer kernels. If accepted, this
>> one should be applied to master as well.
>>
>> This branch builds and runs successfully (so far at least) and our test
>> users can confirm all the improvements brought by the glyphs cache.
>>
>> Thanks for considering it.
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> --
>> Rémi Cardona
>> LRI, INRIA
>> remi.cardona at lri.fr
>> remi at gentoo.org
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>>
>
> I'd like to point the glyph cache isn't entirely bug free yet.
>
> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18065
>
> Maarten.
>

This commit fixed that issue:

http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/commit/?id=21c116219cd5c6845a0955f2d88fdb5fab5c17cf

Maarten.