[Mesa-dev] Upcoming Mesa 7.9.1 and 7.10 releases

[Jerome Glisse]

On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 12:31 PM, Ian Romanick <idr at freedesktop.org> wrote:
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> On 01/04/2011 06:59 AM, Brian Paul wrote:
>> On 01/03/2011 06:27 PM, Ian Romanick wrote:
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>>> commit a9fa0f3a2f318a7c57163491abe931e86b2cd4c3
>>> Author: José Fonseca<jfonseca at vmware.com>
>>> Date:   Mon Dec 6 20:01:30 2010 +0000
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>>>      mesa: Bump the number of bits in the register index.
>>>
>>>      More than 1023 temporaries were being used for a Cinebench shader
>>> before
>>>      doing temporary optimization, causing the index value to wrap
>>> around to
>>>      -1024.
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>> Not needed with old GLSL compiler.
>
> "Old GLSL compiler" meaning the compiler stack in 7.8?  Or does it mean
> the old 965 back-end in 7.9?  Both 7.9 and 7.10 include the rewritten
> compiler.  The primary difference between 7.9 and 7.10 is that 7.10
> includes a new back-end for 965 hardware that does not use the old Mesa IR.
>
> Thanks for cherry picking d18df9e3 and for the comments on the other
> commits.

There is few r600g fixes i want to cherry pick for 7.10, i will try to
do that this week (i am sick with horrible headache so i am might be
slow).

Cheers,
Jerome