[PATCH] candidate patches for server-1.5-branch inclusion

[Maarten Maathuis]

On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 5:57 PM, Rémi Cardona <remi at gentoo.org> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Here's a branch with all the patches that we currently plan on shipping
> in Gentoo.
>
> http://www.lri.fr/~cardona/git/xserver.git (server-1.5-branch)
>
> The first 37 patches are backports from git master, basically all the
> patches that touched exa/ since the branching for 1.5. Only a few got
> thrown out :
>  - those that only touched shmPutImage() and friends
>  - the patch that modifies the devPrivates
>
> With this branch, "git diff --stat server-1.5-branch..master exa/"
> reports only 4 insertions and 2 deletions.
>
> It also includes a backport of a build fix, and another patch that fixes
> a build issue with KDrive's Xvesa with newer kernels. If accepted, this
> one should be applied to master as well.
>
> This branch builds and runs successfully (so far at least) and our test
> users can confirm all the improvements brought by the glyphs cache.
>
> Thanks for considering it.
>
> Cheers
>
> --
> Rémi Cardona
> LRI, INRIA
> remi.cardona at lri.fr
> remi at gentoo.org
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I'd like to point the glyph cache isn't entirely bug free yet.

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18065

Maarten.