[Mesa-dev] Mesa 17.2.4 release candidate

[Emil Velikov]

On 28 October 2017 at 21:35, Andres Gomez <agomez at igalia.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 2017-10-27 at 14:14 -0400, Ilia Mirkin wrote:
>> On Fri, Oct 27, 2017 at 1:43 PM, Andres Gomez <agomez at igalia.com> wrote:
>> > Rejected (6)
>> > ============
>> >
>> > Ilia Mirkin (1):
>> >       glsl: fix derived cs variables
>> >
>> > Reason: Commit is too big for stable at this point.
>>
>> The issue it fixes in regular compute shaders is slightly difficult to
>> hit (but there are piglits that do now), however the issue it hits
>> with ARB_compute_variable_group_size is fairly trivial to encounter.
>>
>> It seems silly to put out releases with known bugs when a fix is
>> easily available and apply-able, with negligible risk of messing
>> things up.
>>
>> Note that this all only affects nouveau and radeonsi, as those are the
>> only drivers that make use of the lowering.
>
> Ilia, I understood by your answer [1] when I asked about your opinion
> regarding 17.2.4 inclusion that it was OK to omit in this series but
> that it should definitely be included in 17.3.
>
> Maybe I didn't make it clear that I was asking for the 17.2 queue and I
> misunderstood your answer (?).
>
> Let's leave it as it is for this release and will see if we can include
> it for the next one.
>
I'm inclined to agree with Andres - let's leave the patch out of 17.2.x.

17.3.x on the other hand is still fairly fresh, so I've pulled the
patch for 17.3.0-rc2.

Thanks
Emil