[Intel-gfx] 2008Q3 release testing

[Jin, Gordon]

Rémi Cardona wrote on Friday, September 19, 2008 5:40 PM:
> Jin, Gordon a écrit :
>> Hi,
>> 
>> We're approaching 2008Q3 release in about 1 week. The stable release
>> will include xf86-video-intel 2.5.0 and mesa based on 7.2, and we
>> will provide GEM as a separate package. So if you have any issues
>> with xf86-video-intel-2.5-branch and mesa_7_2_branch, please speak
>> out. I'm especially interested in new hardware (GM45/G45), HDMI,
>> compiz and EXA performance.
> 
> Hi Gordon,
> 
> I have a couple questions for this upcoming release :
> 
> 1) Flickering issues are not fixed, not on server 1.4, not on 1.5.
> Aside from Gtk not using XRRGetScreenResources (which has been done in
> 2.14.2), is there anything else to be done/tested ?

The only flicker bug I can find is 17405, which is said to be only on 2.4-branch, not on git, not on 2.5-branch. So I'm not putting this as 2.5 blocker.
 
> 2) I recently tried to survey all the intel drivers available in all
> the various pieces of the stack and I'm getting confused... Could you
> clarify all the drivers (outside xf86-video-intel) in mesa and in the
> kernel?
> 
> Right now, in Gentoo turning on support for "i810" builds
> xf86-video-intel, mesa with drivers i810, i915 and i965, and kernel
> DRM drivers i810 and i915.
> 
> Is this still correct these days, or are we building too much?

I don't build i810 in mesa and drm. I'm not sure if you need it for historical reason?

> 3) What do you mean by "we will provide GEM as a separate package" as
> a lot of Gentoo users are really interested in trying it out ever
> since TTM support was dropped.

There're still some major bugs in GEM so we decide not to include it in the stable Q3 package (stable xf86-vdieo-intel + mesa + drm). For interested users to try GEM, we will tell where to get the code (in fact it's already in xf86-video-intel-2.5-branch/master and mesa master, so the major issue is getting a GEM-enabled kernel).

Thanks
Gordon