7.2 RC1

Dave Airlie airlied at gmail.com
Sat Oct 14 17:00:28 PDT 2006


> > xcalc, xconsole and xload don't distcheck properly due to app-default
> > hilarity.  Given my general loathing for the sample apps, if someone
> > doesn't superhero them into distchecking I'm just not going to bother
> > with them for 7.2.  ast doesn't build for me at all, but looks like just
> > header noise.  ati has a bunch of churn; will the non-maintainer please
> > advise.  vmware looks like it has unstable changes; maintainer, please
>
> ati git head (radeon at least) is definitely not ready for release we
> are in the midst of a major re-work of the output system, so I suspect
> there will be some regressions until we get things fully baked.  The
> recent mach64 changes require a newer libdrm which hasn't released
> yet.  r128 hasn't really seen any changes since the last release,
> although I do plan to fix up the output handling similar to radeon (or
> perhaps merge with radeon) at some point.'

Please use the 6.6.3 release for Xorg 7.2 for now., I'll maintain a
stable 6.6 branch.. I'm targetting the new head as 6.7 release
material, with randr++ support and stuff like that..

Dave.

>
> Alex
>
> > advise.  wsfb I can't build for lack of BSD machine; if it needs a
> > release, someone from the BSD camp kindly make one.  Everything else is
> > probably fine.
> >
> > The RANDR 1.2 work has _not_ landed for RC1; eh.  I'll hammer on it for
> > RC2, possibly sneaking out another server containing it.
> >
> > Test!
> >
> > - ajax
> >
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