[arch-dev-public] plans for Xorg/Mesa - closed drivers may break for some time in testing
A new libdrm has been released. This is required to build new ddx drivers for nouveau and the latest intel rc driver for sandy bridge gfx. The current Mesa 7.9 branch won't build anymore the nouveau-dri stuff with the updated libdrm and it's quiet a buggy upstream release. Mesa 7.10 branch is short before the release and has tons of fixes and completes some missing features. We also have a minor Xorg-server 1.9.3 update pending that I will do in extra. Then there's already Xorg-server 1.10 rc1 out for some time we need to test. My plan is to start bringing new libdrm/mesa7.10/Xorg1.10 in the next days to testing. This will improve (me prays) the situation for open source drivers but will probably break the proprietary drivers for some time. I don't follow the closed stuff. Maybe you know something about the state of catalyst and nvidia with new Xorg 1.10. -Andy
On Fri, 2010-12-17 at 08:32 +0100, Andreas Radke wrote:
My plan is to start bringing new libdrm/mesa7.10/Xorg1.10 in the next days to testing. This will improve (me prays) the situation for open source drivers but will probably break the proprietary drivers for some time.
I don't follow the closed stuff. Maybe you know something about the state of catalyst and nvidia with new Xorg 1.10.
I would like to have libdrm/mesa7.10/xorg1.9 in extra first. Mesa 7.9 has its problems, so I don't think going to 7.10 is a bad idea. So far the bug count for xorg-server is quite low at this moment, all problems we're facing now comes from drivers, so I don't see reason to jump to a release candidate of 1.10 now.
Am Fri, 17 Dec 2010 11:36:24 +0100 schrieb Jan de Groot <jan@jgc.homeip.net>:
I would like to have libdrm/mesa7.10/xorg1.9 in extra first. Mesa 7.9 has its problems, so I don't think going to 7.10 is a bad idea. So far the bug count for xorg-server is quite low at this moment, all problems we're facing now comes from drivers, so I don't see reason to jump to a release candidate of 1.10 now.
Sounds also good to me. I'll push new libdrm/Mesa7.10/Xorg-server 1.9.3 to testing and do some driver updates. Once they will be moved to extra we can think about the new Xorg-server again. -Andy
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