X server 1.6 release schedule

[Paulo Cesar Pereira de Andrade]

Adam Jackson wrote:
> There is still one major bugfix that was only ever applied to 1.5 branch
> and not master: 
>
> commit 7822a3d05f935cca3bfa47d15d961596652ecfca
> Author: Adam Jackson <ajax at redhat.com>
> Date:   Tue Jun 17 16:10:51 2008 -0400
>
>     XAA: Disable offscreen pixmaps by default.
>
>     Say Option "XaaOffscreenPixmaps" to turn them back on.
>     
>     Apropos of bugs #13795 and #15098.  Not yet applied to master as this wants
>     a proper solution someday, but then, those bugs aren't closed yet either.
>
> Other than that I think the fixes in 1.5.x are a strict subset of what's
> in master.  I'll probably wind down the 1.5 series with one last release
> when 1.6.0 goes out.

  Probably not related to those bugs, but XAA doesn't have a flag
to call the "sync function" for screen to screen copy after every
"sub blit" on hardware that has only 2 directions copy.

  There was a certain crash with the siliconmotion driver (smi 502)
a few seconds after opening youtube, due to the animations on the web
page overflowing the engine and locking the entire system.
Disabling xaa offscreen pixmaps caused it to do enough computations
to not overflow the engine...
  After changing the xaa code to ensuring the engine is idle before
every "subsequent screen to screen copy", the problem was corrected.

> - ajax
Paulo