[ANNOUNCE] xf86-video-intel 2.7.0

[Alex Bennee]

2009/4/17 Stefano Avallone <stavallo at unina.it>:
> On Friday 17 April 2009 17:32:32 Carl Worth wrote:
>> On Thu, 2009-04-16 at 20:24 -0700, John Ettedgui wrote:
>> > On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 11:03 AM, Frederik Himpe <fhimpe at telenet.be>
>> > wrote:
>> >
>> >         On Wed, 15 Apr 2009 18:29:33 -0700, Carl Worth wrote:
>> >         > We are pleased to announce a major 2.7.0 release of
>> >
>> >         xf86-video-intel
>> >
>>
>> Apparently, Jesse's last-minute fix that made it into xf86-video-intel
>> 2.7.0 requires a corresponding fix in the kernel, (which as of yesterday
>> was in Eric's tree but not quite into Linus' tree yet---but it might be
>> there by now, I haven't checked yet.)
>
> I can confirm that there is no corruption with 2.6.30-rc2 with jbarnes' last-
> minute fix manually applied, intel driver 2.7.0 and KMS on GM965. No
> corruption even after a resume from suspend to disk. Great!

Where is jbarnes latest patch? Watch commit id from which tree please?

>>
>> I'm sorry we released things in such a delicate state.
>>

Seems to have improved some of the tearing issues I was seeing on
2.6.2 but I'm still running in EXA mode.

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