[ubuntu-x] -intel 2.6.3 uploaded

[Bryce Harrington]

On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 11:07:30AM +0000, Peter Clifton wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-03-23 at 17:54 -0700, Bryce Harrington wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 12:22:42AM +0000, Peter Clifton wrote:
> > > Is mesa 7.4 destined for Jaunty? It looks and feels quite good with this
> > > patch in.
> > 
> > There's no plans for mesa 7.4 in jaunty so far.  We're well past feature
> > freeze, so don't anticipate plans materializing now, but if someone were
> > to make a convincing enough case, it could be within the realm of
> > feasibility (it'd have to be post-beta though).
> > 
> > That aside, I'm definitely open to patch cherrypicking if there's ones
> > that apply to 7.3 that would be worth going in.
> 
> I thought the 7.4 branch was supposed to be a stabilisation of the 7.3
> series. Looking at the changelog since 7.3, there is not a great deal on
> that branch so far, so hopefully it will be useful to look at.
> 
> It is just 6 commits past the intel_2009q1_rc1, which I presume will be
> what the latest Intel driver is supposed to be run against.
> 
> It is142 commits past mesa_7_3. Scanning through, they all look like
> fixes, or important additions. There are various there which may be
> critical to getting decent intel performance, including fixing a texture
> leak, and some changes to reduce usage of BO memory.

Thanks for the analysis of it.  I'll defer to Timo at this point since
he generally cares for mesa, but it sounds like there's a convincing
enough case for it.  :-)

Bryce