[ubuntu-x] Hybrid graphics target of opportunity during the 3.5 merge window

[Timo Aaltonen]

On 24.05.2012 19:47, Eric Appleman wrote:
> On 05/24/2012 07:28 AM, Andy Whitcroft wrote:
>> On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 05:21:38AM -0400, Eric Appleman wrote:
>>
>>> If we can get this in 3.5 and Dave Airlie can get the rest of his new X
>>> API into 1.13 and stable DDX, Quantal will have a complete PRIME/DrvScrn
>>> environment.
>>
>> The merge window for 3.5 is already open, indeed nearly closed.  If it
>> is not in -next already it will not be in v3.5, it needs to be in -next
>> very very soon to hit 3.6.
>>
>> -apw
>>
> Would it be in bad taste to send a patch ourselves and just see what
> happens? I wouldn't want to make any bets that Quantal will ship with 3.6.

That would be bad, imo.

> The patch is trivial enough and Rob Clark has already said he could give
> rapid approval.

Don't see why such a patch couldn't be added to the distro kernel once
it's in a newer mainline (pre)release, so no rush to get it in 3.5.

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t