[Mageia-dev] x11-server 1.11.0

Tue Aug 30 17:16:00 CEST 2011

On 30.08.2011 17:14, Thierry Vignaud wrote:
+> On 30 August 2011 14:58, Michael Scherer <misc at zarb.org> wrote:
+>>> Just for reference, I've update to x11-server locally. I've thus
+>>> migrated the patches and such, so no need for it to be done again, just
+>>> ping me!
+>>>
+>>> As for submitting it, I've only tested the intel, synaptics and evdev
+>>> drivers (working fine as I type).
+>>>
+>>> I'm happy to submit things, but this will require rebuilds of quite a
+>>> lot of packages and will likely cause some issues with proprietary
+>>> drivers too.
+>>
+>> Death to nvidia blob,
+>>
+>> ( ie, submit now )
+> 
+> err I've refrained to update to 1.11.0 b/c of that, waitint to know
+> if nvidia/amd will be supporting the new ABI.
+> as ubuntu isn't swithcing to 1.11.0, I fear AMD won't support
+> the new ABI...
+
+AFAICS NVIDIA is held back by a forgotten ABI bump in xserver [1] but
+will likely get 1.11 support at least for their main beta driver soon,
+as usual (though they may have to skip supporting vanilla 1.11.0).
+
+AMD will indeed most likely not support 1.11 at least for several months
+as Ubuntu didn't switch to it.
+
+My vote is submission to /testing if it can be reasonably done at this
+point, and submission to /release when NVIDIA releases 1.11 support or
+some time (several weeks?) has passed without a NVIDIA release.
+
+I support not waiting until AMD gets support, however, as it would
+probably hold back upgrade for too long.
+
+(in any case, we'll want to update ldetect-lst at the same time when
+this is pushed to /release to ensure automatic switching to a working
+driver)
+
+[1] http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel/2011-August/024752.html
+
+-- 
+Anssi Hannula
+