When will the next xf86-video-ati driver be released?

[Porter]

It's been about 4 months since the last release (6.9.0) and many changes have been made in that time. Is there a schedule for release, or does anyone know when the next release will come?

Thanks!

[codestation]

No idea, but you can always get the latest changes from the git repos

git-clone git://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/xorg/driver/xf86-video-ati

and use directly or make a package for your distro

[Porter]

The other (easier) way to do it is to download directly from Tormod Volden's packages site, at least for Ubuntu packages.

https://launchpad.net/~tormodvolden/+archive

My question was more related to the release plan, though... is there a schedule for release? What justifies a "release" as far as the team's methodology is concerned?

[chithanh]

A new release of xf86-video-ati would be a good idea, considering that many distros now ship git snapshots of the driver, in order to support more hardware.

[oibaf]

I agree it would be nice to have a 6.10.0 release with current master before the merging of GEM/KMS support. The only thing that would be nice to have before the release is defaulting to EXA when:

• compiled against a recent enough version of xserver (EXA works well for me at least since 1.4), and
• using radeon kernel module 1.29.0 or later.

At least it would be nice to have a 6.9.191 test version.