[Mesa-dev] [git pull] 9.0 fixes

[Michel Dänzer]

On Fre, 2012-09-14 at 09:41 +0300, Ian Romanick wrote:
> On 09/13/2012 09:48 AM, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> > On Mit, 2012-09-12 at 22:45 +0200, Andreas Boll wrote:
> >>
> >> I think we should probably cherry-pick almost all of the radeonsi
> >> fixes from master, because it's a pretty new experimental driver which
> >> was introduced during 9.0 development cycle.
> >> Shouldn't we?
> >
> > We probably should at some point, but I'm not sure it's quite time yet,
> > as some rather basic functionality is still missing / broken. In
> > particular, we should probably wait until it can handle the (not so
> > basic) glamor 2D acceleration shaders before worrying about backporting
> > stuff.
> 
> Picking some things now might make things a bit easier in the future. 
> There will also be several 9.0.x releases, so there may not be a big 
> rush.  It mostly depends on which things you want to be picked up in 
> specific distro releases.
> 
> I'll leave the actual radeonsi picking to you, though.

Sure, thanks.


> > That said, radeonsi is running a fair number of non-trivial apps now and
> > should be ready for wider testing from the mesa and libdrm master
> > branches. Until 2D acceleration works, running fullscreen with page
> > flipping is required for good performance.

This is less of an issue with current xf86-video-ati Git, DRI2 buffer
swaps are always accelerated. 


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