[Bug 337301] Re: FFe: Update to 2.6.3

[Bryce Harrington]

slangasek, brief summary from the release notes:


2.6.2: Here comes a pretty significant bugfix release for the 2.6 2D series.
The goal of this release is to get out the major fixes for GEM and KMS
that we think we've pounded on enough to be stable -- certainly more
stable than previously.  Notable fixes include a significant BO memory
usage reduction (which many have suffered from with compositing),
textured XV support with KMS, and rotation support with KMS.  Some
infrequent failure to render/xv with GEM on 965 (dmesg warnings about
being unable to bind objects) should also be fixed. 

But perhaps the exciting thing for most people will be the dynamic front
buffer allocation.  We nearly slipped this into 2.6.0, but decided that
it was just a little too new.  Well, turns out it was actually in good
shape, and it's time to get it out there.  You'll need UXA to do this.


2.6.3: This is an easy one: two bugfixes for regressions in the last release.
One broke initialization with UXA and DRI1, and the other made pixmap
allocation on i915 take insane amounts of memory.


** Description changed:

- Binary package hint: xserver-xorg-video-intel
+ [description]
  
- At least from what I've read in the mailing list, the 2.6.3 release of intel drivers should provide a good number of bugfixes over 2.6.1, the one present in jaunty's repositories.
- I'm wondering if it is the case to update, since it also requires libdrm 2.4.5.
+ At least from what I've read in the mailing list, the 2.6.3 release of
+ intel drivers should provide a good number of bugfixes over 2.6.1, the
+ one present in jaunty's repositories.
+ 
+ 2.6.2/2.6.3 are significant bug fix releases, incorporating many fixes
+ to GEM/DRI2/UXA as well as a number of more general bugs and performance
+ issues.
+ 
+ Bringing our -intel up closer to the latest upstream stable release also
+ makes it easier to get support from upstream; 2.6.1 is too old and
+ they're just asking bug reporters to re-test against newer versions,
+ which is hampering efforts to get additional fixes backported for
+ jaunty.
+ 
+ Upstream for -intel is advocating UXA as a solution to a wide variety of
+ bugs and problems that we're seeing in the distribution currently.  Our
+ testing found that UXA as of 2.6.1 was far too unstable to consider
+ turning on as default so could not consider that as an option.
+ Supposedly, the fixes in 2.6.3 will open UXA as an option for us, that
+ may solve a wide range of issues.  However, we want to gain testing on
+ this by the wider community before biting the bullet and switching.  So
+ having this 2.6.3 release in Jaunty beta will help enable us to do this
+ testing.
+ 
+ [changelog]
+ 2.6.2:  http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/2009-February/044003.html
+ 2.6.3:  http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/2009-March/044186.html
+ 
+ [testing]
+ I (bryce) have built the package locally in a pbuilder environment, installed and tested against EXA both with and without compiz, and running my XSmoke test (which covers basic video, opengl, and resolution switching).

** Description changed:

  [description]
- 
- At least from what I've read in the mailing list, the 2.6.3 release of
- intel drivers should provide a good number of bugfixes over 2.6.1, the
- one present in jaunty's repositories.
+ At least from what I've read in the mailing list, the 2.6.3 release of intel drivers should provide a good number of bugfixes over 2.6.1, the one present in jaunty's repositories.
  
  2.6.2/2.6.3 are significant bug fix releases, incorporating many fixes
  to GEM/DRI2/UXA as well as a number of more general bugs and performance
  issues.
  
- Bringing our -intel up closer to the latest upstream stable release also
- makes it easier to get support from upstream; 2.6.1 is too old and
- they're just asking bug reporters to re-test against newer versions,
- which is hampering efforts to get additional fixes backported for
- jaunty.
+ [rationale]
+ Bringing our -intel up closer to the latest upstream stable release also makes it easier to get support from upstream; 2.6.1 is too old and they're just asking bug reporters to re-test against newer versions, which is hampering efforts to get additional fixes backported for jaunty.
  
  Upstream for -intel is advocating UXA as a solution to a wide variety of
  bugs and problems that we're seeing in the distribution currently.  Our
  testing found that UXA as of 2.6.1 was far too unstable to consider
  turning on as default so could not consider that as an option.
  Supposedly, the fixes in 2.6.3 will open UXA as an option for us, that
  may solve a wide range of issues.  However, we want to gain testing on
  this by the wider community before biting the bullet and switching.  So
  having this 2.6.3 release in Jaunty beta will help enable us to do this
  testing.
  
  [changelog]
  2.6.2:  http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/2009-February/044003.html
  2.6.3:  http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/2009-March/044186.html
  
  [testing]
  I (bryce) have built the package locally in a pbuilder environment, installed and tested against EXA both with and without compiz, and running my XSmoke test (which covers basic video, opengl, and resolution switching).

** Changed in: xserver-xorg-video-intel (Ubuntu)
       Status: Confirmed => Triaged

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