[Glamor] lines fallback improvement

[Alex Deucher]

On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 11:17 AM, Zhigang Gong <zhigang.gong at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 11:54 PM, Alex Deucher <alexdeucher at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 8:31 AM, Zhigang Gong <zhigang.gong at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 11:56 PM, Alex Deucher <alexdeucher at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 11:35 AM, Zhigang Gong <zhigang.gong at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 12:15 AM, Alex Deucher <alexdeucher at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>> It would be nice to have this committed as well if there are no objections.
>>>>>> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/attachment.cgi?id=92009
>>>>> It looks good. I will merge it latter.
>>>>
>>>> Any word on merging this patch?
>>> I just pushed this patch.
>>>
>>> The other one which is to accelerate glamor_copy_area is not a git
>>> patch and I just checked
>>> the bugzilla record, and it seems that there is one negative feedback
>>> of that patch. I would
>>> like to hold for a while to wait for the author to submit the patch
>>> with sign-off to the list.
>>>
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> And there is still another Xv related bug pending at:
>>>>> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=72821
>>>>> is there anybody can look into it?
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> It would also be nice to get a new glamor release.  There are a lot of
>>>>>> bug fixes and Xv support.  I'd like to release a new xf86-video-ati,
>>>>>> but we currently depend on the git version of glamor.
>>>>>
>>>>> I will make a new release at next week if everything is ok.
>>>>> Considering there are a lot of
>>>>> bug fixing and one major new feature Xv support, I would like to bump
>>>>> the version to 0.6
>>>>> if there is no objection.
>>>>
>>>> Any chance we could get a release soon?
>>> One open issue is the above copy_area patch, another is the insecure
>>> issue pointed out by
>>> Axel Davy. I would like to hold for at least one or two days to see
>>> whether we can get them
>>> fixed.
>>>
>>> Sorry for a little bit late for the release. But I'm really busy these
>>> days in the working hour and
>>> can only take care of this in my very little spare time.
>>
>> No problem.  Our team is happy to help if we could get commit access
>> to the glamor tree.  E.g.,
>
> If any one from your team could fix the security issue (GEM
> Flink)reported by  Davy,
> it will accelerate this release process :).
>

We can take a look, but as this bug is not new (can happen with any
app, kind of a fundamental flaw of the current GEM interface), can we
hold off until the next release?

>> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=73676
>
> I just don't know how to grant you access. Is there any reference for
> such type of thing?

Just follow the instructions on the "What the Project Leader does"
section on this page:
http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/AccountRequests/

Alex

> Thanks.
>
>>
>> Alex