[Mesa-dev] [ANNOUNCE] Mesa 17.3.7 release candidate

[Emil Velikov]

On 16 March 2018 at 12:17, Alex Smith <asmith at feralinteractive.com> wrote:
> Hi Juan,
>
> On 16 March 2018 at 11:42, Juan A. Suarez Romero <jasuarez at igalia.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Hello list,
>>
>> The candidate for the Mesa 17.3.7 is now available. Currently we have:
>>  - 53 queued
>>  - 9 nominated (outstanding)
>>  - and 6 rejected patches
>>
>>
>> In the current queue we have lot of fixes, as the latest two releases were
>> emergency releases to fix major issues.
>>
>> The i965 receives quite a few of fixes. We have fixes for hangs on
>> GFXBench 5's
>> Aztec Ruins benchmark, a fix for OpenGL CTS test in Haswell, another fix
>> for the
>> number of input components, a fix for KHR_blend_equation_advanced, another
>> fix
>> in the intel_from_planar, and some other fixes.
>>
>> In the RADV driver, there is a 3D images copying fix, another to disable
>> tc-
>> compat on multisample d32s8, a fix related with HTILE, and a fix to avoid
>> hangs
>> on Vega. Also, there is a couple of fixes regarding fences.
>>
>> R600 driver gets fixes for some hangs related with recip generation, a fix
>> for
>> XFB stream check, another for indirect UBO access, and a final one for
>> cubemap
>> arrays.
>>
>> In SWR/Rast driver we have a couple of fixes when using LLVM 6.0, which
>> has been
>> recently released. Besides those, there are another couple of fixes too.
>>
>> Finally, there a some fixes for other drivers like Virgl, NVC0, Winsys,
>> and
>> RadeonSI.
>>
>> Fixes also reach Wayland part. There's a fix to use the
>> wayland-egl-backend.h
>> provided by Mesa itself, and a fix related with ARGB/XRGB transposition.
>>
>> Just to continue, there are also other framework-specific fixes. There are
>> a
>> bunch of fixes for NIR, fixes for GLSL component.
>>
>> Finally, and to avoid extending to much the list of fixes, there are
>> several
>> fixes that touches different parts of Mesa that solves different bugs.
>>
>> Take a look at section "Mesa stable queue" for more information.
>>
>>
>> Testing reports/general approval
>> --------------------------------
>> Any testing reports (or general approval of the state of the branch) will
>> be
>> greatly appreciated.
>>
>> The plan is to have 17.3.7 this XXX (XXth Mar), around or shortly after
>> 12:00
>> GMT.
>>
>> If you have any questions or suggestions - be that about the current patch
>> queue
>> or otherwise, please go ahead.
>>
>>
>> Trivial merge conflicts
>> -----------------------
>>
>> commit fc507dbfd193de5ef09ed2944090e9727820d9ea
>> Author: Dave Airlie <airlied at redhat.com>
>>
>>     ac/nir: don't apply slice rounding on txf_ms
>>
>>     (cherry picked from commit 69495b30a38fbb01a937cdea6f7674f89a2e60e7)
>>
>>
>> commit 5fd11359b66c8138d2c7ee29bd9740280b02d1e2
>> Author: Daniel Stone <daniels at collabora.com>
>>
>>     egl/wayland: Fix ARGB/XRGB transposition in config map
>>
>>     (cherry picked from commit 4fbd2d50b1c06a3c10f3a254e933646345123751)
>>
>>
>> commit 7f4a0a16284391f802a11717fa74ba5e13cbe43b
>> Author: Bas Nieuwenhuizen <basni at chromium.org>
>>
>>     radeonsi: Export signalled sync file instead of -1.
>>
>>     (cherry picked from commit 5a3404d443e0c6e8e9a44d7f8dccf96c5ac18f0f)
>>
>> squashed with
>>
>>     configure/meson: Bump libdrm_amdgpu version requirement.
>>
>>     (cherry picked from commit 52be440f48ac7c337f6604846bb6f0cfd88e7118)
>>
>>
>> commit 6ddf838def69036a48524e2f5ae79fb01170e59c
>> Author: Bas Nieuwenhuizen <bas at basnieuwenhuizen.nl>
>>
>>     radv: Always lower indirect derefs after
>> nir_lower_global_vars_to_local.
>>
>>     (cherry picked from commit 05d84ed68add9e6adfcc602a274405e04226c1b7)
>>
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>>     J.A.
>>
>>
>>
>> Mesa stable queue
>> -----------------
>>
>> Nominated (9)
>> ==============
>>
>> Alex Smith (1):
>>       fcf267ba08 radv: Fix CmdCopyImage between uncompressed and
>> compressed
>> images
>>
>> Bas Nieuwenhuizen (1):
>>       997306c031 radv: Increase the number of dynamic uniform buffers.
>
>
> To clarify, does "nominated" mean that these will *not* be in 17.3.7? (I
> guess so since I don't see them on the branch)
>
Yes, that's correct. The terminology used is explained here [1].
Improvement and alternative suggestions are welcome!

[1] https://www.mesa3d.org/releasing.html#prerelease

> I'd like the above two changes in if possible.
>
Should be fine IMHO - patches are well isolated and self contained.

-Emil