[Intel-gfx] Intel 2009Q2 release

[Alan W. Irwin]

On 2009-07-22 13:19+0200 Marc Deop i Argemí wrote:

> On Wednesday 22 July 2009 08:31:59 Alan W. Irwin wrote:
>> It is a really good sign (at least to me) that the four non-kernel
>> components of this recommended graphics stack are immediately available as
>> Debian unstable packages.  That makes life much easier for Debian testers
>> of this release.
>
> libdrm is not at the latest version, is it?

Possibly, but according to
http://bjorn.haxx.se/debian/testing.pl?package=libdrm2, Debian unstable has
2.4.12-1 which is the version recommended by
http://intellinuxgraphics.org/2009Q2.html.

>
> By the way, this release works much much better than all the previous ones.
> The performance is still lagging, the system is stable though :)

That stability news is absolutely great to hear.  My opinion is that without
stability you don't have anything worth a damn.  Of course, speed is an
especially important issue for some situations (e.g., netbooks), and I am
sure the Intel developers are anxious to put a whole lot more effort into
that issue once they have the fundamental stability issue finally nailed
down.

Alan
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