[Intel-gfx] 2.10 and 2.9 point releases

[Dave Airlie]

On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 6:55 AM, Eric Anholt <eric at anholt.net> wrote:
> For whatever libdrm knock-it-off-with-the-overallocation patch we settle
> on, it's going to trigger the bug with the 2D driver underallocating
> framebuffer memory on my 1440x900 laptop.  I've pushed tested patches to
> both branches, and my plan is to roll point releases of those, and
> mention in the libdrm release notes whenever that happens that you'll
> want either 2.9.2, 2.10.1, 2.11, or
> d08782e1a17279092fa4027d98d25ef36a9f80e5 in your 2D driver.  The
> alternative would be for libdrm to avoid good behavior unless the driver
> said it was ready to cope, but that seems messy when the fix is so
> trivial.

Uggh, you've heard of ABIs? I'd rather we maintained them if we could.

People don't just update libdrm because of Intel, so they might be
grabbing a new libdrm to work on some other driver, and not realise
their distro needs newer ones.

Dave.