[arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Xorg changes / DRM modules

[Andreas Radke]

Am Tue, 22 Dec 2009 00:46:29 +0100
schrieb Heiko Baums <lists at baums-on-web.de>:

> Please, don't make too many experiments in the stable repos and keep
> the packages in the repos as close to the "stable" upstream releases
> as possible. I don't think that having a git version in the repo is a
> good idea anyway.

We would also like to do this. Would mean much less work for us.

New kernel brings changes in drm modules. Xorg ddx driver updates
require new kernel modules and sometimes even more recent stuff.
There's new mesa out now. And upstream devs work hard on the
kmd-drm-gallium switch for the future. 

Sadly not all part move at the same time and distributions have to
decide whether to package old stuff that isn't supported upstream
anymore or more recent and sadly buggy stuff.

We will try to fix all known issues in testing before we move stuff to
core/extra.

-Andy