[ANNOUNCE] xorg-server 1.6.1.902

Ian Romanick idr at freedesktop.org
Tue Jun 30 13:06:50 PDT 2009


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Dave Airlie wrote:
> 2009/6/30 Keith Packard <keithp at keithp.com>:
>> On Tue, 2009-06-30 at 08:46 +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote:
>>
>>> How about: The DRI2 changes seem to break the video driver ABI, and
>>> apparently Mesa without corresponding changes (which will only be in the
>>> upcoming 7.5 release) as well. See Brice Goglin's report from a couple
>>> of days ago.
>> I've read the reports, and I'm treating this as a bug at this point -- I
>> need to see more information about how the ABI is broken so we can
>> figure out how to fix it.
>>
>>> You rejected backports before based on breaking ABI.
>> Yup, let's figure out how to fix it. This ABI breakage is unintentional,
>> I believe.
> 
> I'm not sure you can easily.
> 
> The DRI2BufferRec changes size (adds a new int format), the driver
> mallocs an array of these,
> so you are probably pwned in that case.
> 
> I think the extension of DRI2InfoRec is probably okay, if the server
> checks the version.

The server checks the version and flat rejects drivers with the old
version.  Ditto for new drivers with an old server.  Like I said to
Michel, we discussed this quite a bit... you, Michel, and Kristian all
participated in those discussions, so I'm a little confused why everyone
is so surprised about this.

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