[Mesa-dev] [ANNOUNCE] mesa 12.0.5

Timo Aaltonen tjaalton at ubuntu.com
Thu Jan 12 10:29:40 UTC 2017


On 11.01.2017 15:01, Emil Velikov wrote:
> On 6 December 2016 at 14:55, Marek Olšák <maraeo at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'd like to announce that this release doesn't fix the worst GPU
>> hangs/freezes it has. I'm talking about all Gallium drivers here.
>> There was a bug recently discovered in shared code that leads to
>> random GPU hangs with radeonsi, but all other Gallium drivers are also
>> affected in "some negative way", which may include freezes. The fix
>> was available prior to 12.0.5, but wasn't applied due to a process
>> issue.
>>
>> It is still the best 12.0.x release, but users and distributions
>> wanting better stability for non-Intel drivers should wait for 12.0.6.
>>
> As some of you may know, I've mentioned that 12.0.6 will be available
> if we get at least a few developers/teams behind it.
> 
> Since then people have contacted me, on and off list, speaking
> positively about having 12.0.6. As such there I'll be rolling the
> release.
> Not to mention that Michel went the extra mile with improved/extra
> patches on the topic/issue mentioned by Marek.
> 
> Thank for the feedback everyone !
> Emil

Is there a public branch with the proposed commits? mesa/12.0 hasn't
been touched since previous release. I'd need the release or a
preliminary branch ASAP for ubuntu..


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