[Mesa-dev] [git pull] 9.0 fixes

[Ian Romanick]

On 09/13/2012 09:48 AM, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> On Mit, 2012-09-12 at 22:45 +0200, Andreas Boll wrote:
>>
>> I think we should probably cherry-pick almost all of the radeonsi
>> fixes from master, because it's a pretty new experimental driver which
>> was introduced during 9.0 development cycle.
>> Shouldn't we?
>
> We probably should at some point, but I'm not sure it's quite time yet,
> as some rather basic functionality is still missing / broken. In
> particular, we should probably wait until it can handle the (not so
> basic) glamor 2D acceleration shaders before worrying about backporting
> stuff.

Picking some things now might make things a bit easier in the future. 
There will also be several 9.0.x releases, so there may not be a big 
rush.  It mostly depends on which things you want to be picked up in 
specific distro releases.

I'll leave the actual radeonsi picking to you, though.

> That said, radeonsi is running a fair number of non-trivial apps now and
> should be ready for wider testing from the mesa and libdrm master
> branches. Until 2D acceleration works, running fullscreen with page
> flipping is required for good performance.