Intel 3.0 Linux Driver To Enable SNA, Support XMir

[mrugiero]

Serious (possibly stupid) question, is the license of a reverted patch still valid?
Or must it be treated as if it hasn't existed at all?

It's still valid. But not being upstream means it will bitrott if nobody maintains it out of tree.

[Newfie]

It's just your GPU is broken. Sorry.

I tried using SNA for the first time a few days ago. Performance is overall *much* better, but sometimes there are some graphical glitches with text becoming stretched and slanted. Selecting the text or minimizing/maximizing the window will fix it.

Aside from those minor issues, SNA is great.

[entropy]

The hardware design and silicon validations teams are hard at work on the next generations, so we don't get any traction with old bugs unless we can demonstrate that they still affect the most recent generation (and preferrably the next one under active development). For old bugs like this, we can ask if anyone remembers something like it, but realistically we have to trawl through the list of known issues that were found by the validation and Windows driver teams and see if anything matches (and those are very terse descriptions with almost no explanation of the issue and often little detail as to the potential fix.) And no, I haven't found anything. At this moment in time, the only method I know that definitely works is to only let the GPU process one rectangle at a time.

Thanks for answering, Chris!

This should be fun: http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/dri...f9d304f23b188a

Uhh...

Serious (possibly stupid) question, is the license of a reverted patch still valid?
Or must it be treated as if it hasn't existed at all?

Also

Snapshot 2.99.902 (2013-08-07)
==============================
We do not condone or support Canonical in the course of action they have
chosen, and will not carry XMir patches upstream.
-The Management

I guess the date should be 2013-09-07, but anyhow...

[Gusar]

This should be fun: http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/dri...f9d304f23b188a

[jmb74]

http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-video-intel/commit/?id=58a7611ccfda88c7cbcc62b25b787d6b0fa64081

+Snapshot 2.99.902 (2013-08-07)
+==============================
+We do not condone or support Canonical in the course of action they have
+chosen, and will not carry XMir patches upstream.
+-The Management
+

http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-video-intel/commit/?id=0c697aee9b3767be7d1e04e4e4f9d304f23b188a

Revert "sna: Add XMir support"
This reverts commit 42d94356f65972eb7fb8991234a4e9388c4c2031. Ordered-by: The Management.

[ejs1920]

2.99.901 seems OK so far with SNA on my GM45.

[matzipan]

All DE's, eh? So Enlightenment, XFCE, KDE, Gnome-Shell are all going to be using it? I can pretty much guarantee at least one of those won't be working.

Oh sorry missed the "all" word :P+

[leech]

All DE's, eh? So Enlightenment, XFCE, KDE, Gnome-Shell are all going to be using it? I can pretty much guarantee at least one of those won't be working.

[matzipan]

Nope, they won't.

Oh yes they will

[Vim_User]

It's quite pragmatic actually. XMir support is higher priority, because Canonical is going to ship their next release with all DE's running on XMir.

Nope, they won't.