Re: [CFT] Xorg 7.7 ready for testing!

From: Warren Block <wblock_at_wonkity.com>
Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2012 09:25:42 -0600 (MDT)
On Thu, 7 Jun 2012, Martin Wilke wrote:

> The FreeBSD Xorg Team is pleased to announce Xorg 7.7 Release. We are
> very happy to be able to Call for testing shortly after the Xorg team
> annouced 7.7 release.

Thanks for your work on this!

> This CFT is also open for discussion on how we should move forward 
> with xorg release as we are facing some issues and we would like to 
> ask for your opinion. Right now we have 2 existing xorg versions in 
> our Ports Tree. The situation is quite bad due to our poor graphic 
> card support. That means we do not have much choice but to take it as 
> how it is now. But with regards to mesa support, we have to face some 
> new challanges.
>
> With the new mesa 8.0 release, accelerated support for a number of
> older graphic cards was dropped. At the moment we are not sure how to
> deal with that.We are thinking of just replacing mesa 7.11 with 8.0 or
> making a new flag like WITH_MESA= 7.11.2 / 8.0 in combination with
> WITH_NEW_XORG, and let the mesa 7.6.1 set as default together with the
> old xorg version.

WITH_NEW_XORG is already vague, right now we have two that could be 
considered new.  Would WITH_XORG=7.5 or WITH_XORG=7.7 work?  That makes 
it easier to tell what is being requested; "new" is a relative term.
Received on Thu Jun 07 2012 - 13:25:43 UTC

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