[ANNOUNCE] upcoming mandated dim upgrade due to drm-intel branch change

[Jani Nikula]

On Mon, 30 Nov 2020, Jani Nikula <jani.nikula at intel.com> wrote:
> TL;DR:
> - On 2020-12-05, drm-intel-next-queued will be decommissioned
> - drm-intel committers need to start using drm-intel-next instead
> - Everyone needs to upgrade dim *after* the change

This has now been done. Please update dim, and start using
drm-intel-next for applying i915 patches. Thank you.

BR,
Jani.


> Full story:
>
> For historical reasons, we've had separate drm-intel-next-queued
> ("dinq") and drm-intel-next ("din") branches for development and pull
> requests, respectively. This split has not been necessary for a while
> now, so we'll finally remove dinq, and start applying patches directly
> to drm-intel-next.
>
> We'll make the switch on 2020-12-05.
>
> This change requires a flag-day change in dim, i.e. everyone will need
> to upgrade dim *after* the switch. (The details of the flag-day change
> are covered in [1].)
>
> All the current dinq related commands and aliases (such as 'dim conq',
> 'dim aq', and 'dim pq') will continue to work, except they'll operate on
> drm-intel-next.
>
>
> BR,
> Jani.
>
>
> [1] http://marc.info/?i=20201113095658.16655-1-jani.nikula@intel.com

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Jani Nikula, Intel Open Source Graphics Center