maverick radeon 6.13.2 SRU?

Christopher James Halse Rogers raof at ubuntu.com
Fri Oct 1 02:08:49 BST 2010


On Thu, 2010-09-30 at 10:56 -0700, Bryce Harrington wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 02:47:02PM +0100, Daniel J Blueman wrote:
> > What is the consensus an SRU for the radeon 6.13.2 Xorg driver in Maverick?
> > 
> > http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-driver-ati/2010-September/017206.html
> > 
> > It is probably too late to ship with the media, so is eligible for a
> > post-release update, right?
> 
> No, the SRU team has typically been strictly against doing new upstream
> versions of video drivers as SRUs, so ubuntu-x usually does not do this.

I've also seen some IRC reports of this driver release dramatically
reducing performance under KDE, although that's somewhat of an anecdote
at this point.
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