[ANNOUNCE] xf86-video-intel-2.1.99

[Jesse Barnes]

On Friday, November 09, 2007 6:23 am Lukas Hejtmanek wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 06:39:19PM -0800, Jesse Barnes wrote:
> > There are still several open issues with this release, but bugs are being
> > squashed fairly quickly, so it may shape up into something decent by
> > release time.
> >
> > The main highlights of this release versus 2.1.0 are:
> >   - EXA by default (cheers & jeers all around please)
> >   - Tiled front buffer (should improve performance)
> >   - Framebuffer compression (a power saving feature)
> >   - Many, many bug fixes (yay!)
>
> with EXA default, users will see performance regression (at least using non
> composite path).

In some cases, yes, and we're working on that.  On the other hand, they'll be 
able to use features like a tiled front buffer, framebuffer compression, and 
hopefully see fewer bugs with things like compositing window managers and Xv.

Jesse