[ANNOUNCE] xorg-server 1.6.1.902

[Dave Airlie]

2009/6/30 Keith Packard <keithp at keithp.com>:
> On Tue, 2009-06-30 at 08:46 +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote:
>
>> How about: The DRI2 changes seem to break the video driver ABI, and
>> apparently Mesa without corresponding changes (which will only be in the
>> upcoming 7.5 release) as well. See Brice Goglin's report from a couple
>> of days ago.
>
> I've read the reports, and I'm treating this as a bug at this point -- I
> need to see more information about how the ABI is broken so we can
> figure out how to fix it.
>
>> You rejected backports before based on breaking ABI.
>
> Yup, let's figure out how to fix it. This ABI breakage is unintentional,
> I believe.
>

I'm not sure you can easily.

The DRI2BufferRec changes size (adds a new int format), the driver
mallocs an array of these,
so you are probably pwned in that case.

I think the extension of DRI2InfoRec is probably okay, if the server
checks the version.

Dave.

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