[Mesa-dev] [ANNOUNCE] mesa 12.0.5

[Timo Aaltonen]

On 13.01.2017 07:40, Emil Velikov wrote:
> On 12 January 2017 at 10:29, Timo Aaltonen <tjaalton at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>> 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..
>>
> A preliminary one, tested only locally:
> https://github.com/evelikov/Mesa/commits/mesa_12/jenkins
> 
> A proper one, alongside a summary email will follow shortly - as the
> test results arrive.

Great, thanks! Any reason mesa/12.0 can't be kept in sync with this?


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