[Mesa-dev] Upcoming Mesa releases

Brian Paul brianp at vmware.com
Fri May 18 08:06:23 PDT 2012


On 05/18/2012 12:51 AM, Ian Romanick wrote:
> On 05/06/2012 01:12 PM, Kurt Roeckx wrote:
>> On Sat, May 05, 2012 at 09:18:24PM -0700, Ian Romanick wrote:
>>> On 05/04/2012 03:57 PM, Kurt Roeckx wrote:
>>>> On Fri, May 04, 2012 at 08:32:11AM -0700, Ian Romanick wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Part of the reason there are so few changes is that people get lazy
>>>>> about cherry picking fixes over. :) Having regularly planned
>>>>> releases (with reminder messages) should help keep people on track.
>>>>
>>>> I'm still missing patches marked as "candidate for stable
>>>> branches" that where commited before the 8.0 release.
>>>
>>> I can believe that. Do you have a list?
>>
>> So I went over all the changes since on master since the branch,
>> and put everything that was marked as candicate and things that
>> looked like bugfixes to me on a branch. You can find it at
>> git://github.com/kroeckx/mesa.git in the 8.0 branch.
>>
>> I've currently only tested that on sandy bridge, the piglet
>> changes compared to the 8.0.2 release look like:
>> crash->pass: 2
>> fail->pass: 13
>> skip->fail: 7
>> skip->pass: 10
>> pass->skip: 2
>>
>> From 8638/8777 to 8661/8792
>
> I've picked a bunch of these over. I didn't take ae92180 because it
> enables an extension (GL_ARB_draw_instanced) that wasn't previously
> enabled on 8.0.x. I'd do some more tomorrow.

Here's a few that I'd like included:

1bc16bf98a1b5a4cca0c0ae2a80ba7982c6e4651
f2724905469bbcde820b9ece2e4f44a610a75a65
99ed0b2f9b95a484aa78aeee0277bb669611be5b


> Note: I haven't picked over any to core Gallium or Gallium drivers. I
> can't test those, so I don't feel comfortable doing that on the eve of
> a "stable" release.

As we've said before, it's pretty easy to build/test softpipe at 
least.  In any case, I didn't see any essential picks for llvmpipe, 
softpipe or svga.

-Brian


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