[Glamor] lines fallback improvement

[Zhigang Gong]

I agree to postpone this the GEM name security issue to next release.
I just made the release of 0.6.0, and processed your account request.

Thanks.

On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 12:22 AM, Alex Deucher <alexdeucher at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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