xf86-video-intel 2.5 release planning

[Colin Guthrie]

Jesse Barnes wrote:
> Target highlights for this release include:
>   1) usable EXA support
>   6) removal of XAA code

For me, even on the 2.4 series, EXA is still unusably slow on my i945 
and compositing. Perhaps I'm missing a setting. It's certainly better 
than before (it used to crash the server!), but I'm still a little 
concerned about removing XAA completely (main issue right now is 
scrolling, but I'll need to read Carl's blog and see what's what!)

If EXA really, really does work and has no (massive) regressions on all 
hardware then great, but is it worth actually *removing* code in this 
release (i.e. will it hold back/delay other features?)

If I was playing the percentages game, I'd say the safer bet would be to 
get EXA good now, and keep the XAA just in case and aim to drop it from 
the 2.6 series.

In mdv packages we still defaulted to XAA for a lot of hardware and even 
if the 2.4, I'm not seeing enough evidence to make me want to change 
that just yet.

Just some thoughts.

Col