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

Ionut Biru biru.ionut at gmail.com
Tue Dec 22 07:30:11 EST 2009


On 12/22/2009 01:59 PM, Andreas Radke wrote:
> 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

also we have to know what issue exists and that's require testing from 
you guys. don't forget that downgrading is not a solution and all issue 
should be submitted to bugtracker. this is the only way to let us know 
about that.

-- 
Ionut


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