[Mesa-dev] Upcoming Mesa releases

[Jakob Bornecrantz]

On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 6:35 PM, Ian Romanick <idr at freedesktop.org> wrote:
> On 08/20/2012 07:26 AM, Marek Olšák wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 4:01 AM, Ian Romanick <idr at freedesktop.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> After the big announcement at SIGGRAPH, I want to discuss plans for
>>> upcoming
>>> Mesa releases.  This is basically inline with what we discussed a few
>>> months
>>> ago, but there are a couple changes.  I know a lot of people have been
>>> doing
>>> a lot of work all across the graphics stack, so I want to make sure that
>>> all
>>> of the work that's almost ready to land has a chance.
>>>
>>> I mostly want to know if the plans for the next couple months work for
>>> people.  Anything beyond that is just my best guess of how things will
>>> go.
>>>
>>> 8/17: Release Mesa 8.0.5.  I'll send out another pick-list on Friday or
>>> Saturday, and pick things over on Monday or Tuesday.
>>>
>>> 8/20: Make a Mesa 9.0 stablization branch.  It looks like the few
>>> dangling
>>> bits of OpenGL 3.1 will get wrapped up pretty quick.  I'm confident that
>>> we
>>> can at least enable 3.1 on the hardware where we currently enable 3.0.
>>
>>
>> I'd like to finish MSAA support for more R600 chipsets for Mesa 9.0
>> (we only support Evergreen at the moment), but I will need a couple
>> more days. Could we please postpone making the 9.0 branch until 8/27?
>> If not, I'd like to cherry-pick my not-yet-published MSAA work to the
>> 9.0 branch once it's working.
>
>
> Yeah, that is fine... I'm lagging a bit and need a few more days too.

Me to, I have some DRI interface changes I like to get into the
release, I'm hoping to send them out for review today but I'm not sure
I'll get reviews/signoff on them for monday.

Cheers, Jakob.