X11R6.8.2 maintenance release plans and call for comments.

Adam Jackson ajax at nwnk.net
Tue Oct 26 18:05:03 PDT 2004


On Tuesday 26 October 2004 20:20, Ian Romanick wrote:
> What should be done about things like the endianess issues in the
> t_vertex code in the r128 and r200 drivers?  I committed fixes to Mesa
> CVS (trunk).  I'd really like to see those fixes committed.  Without
> them, those drivers really suck on big-endian systems. :)  I suspect
> that radeon driver has the same problems, but I don't have any PowerPC
> R100 cards to test.
>
> If none of these bugs had fixes already in CVS, I'd suggests that a bug
> be filed for all of them (i.e., "Big-endian problems with t_vertex
> drivers") and that depend on a bug for each of the individual drivers.
> Is that still the right answer?

For Mesa (anything in extras/ really) I think we're justified in just saying 
"Bug #XXX: Import current Mesa stable branch for 6.8.2" and then documenting 
the changes from the commit messages for the stable branch.

- ajax
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