[arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] kernel26 2.6.28-2

[pyther]

On Tue, 06 Jan 2009 01:37:33 +0100, tobias at justdreams.de wrote:
> Quoting Jan de Groot <jan at jgc.homeip.net>:
>> I'm running the 2.6 prerelease series for a while on my laptop now. My
>> first impressions:
>> - EXA is even slower than it was with 2.4.3
>> - UXA is much faster
>> - XAA not tested
>> - 3D is horribly slow
>> - Compiz doesn't draw window decorations due to some breakage in libdrm
>> 
>> If we want to use 2.5.x or 2.6 when it comes out, we have to grab a mesa
>> snapshot from git master to get GEM support in mesa also.
>> 
>> As xorg-server 1.6 shouldn't be far away anymore, I think we can wait
>> for the next stable release of mesa that has GEM support.
>> 
> Just as I thought you have much more insight on this. I totally agree to
> stick with 2.4.x for now.
>  
> Thanks,
> 	-T

I just wanted to let the devs know that 2.4.x causes Xorg to crash with
Kernel 2.6.28, so some users might have issues. It doesn't matter to me
either way just wanted to let that information be known.

Thanks,
pyther