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[Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Op 10-01-13 00:52, Bryce Harrington schreef:
> On Sun, Jan 06, 2013 at 03:38:54AM +0100, Maarten Lankhorst wrote:
>> Op 04-01-13 23:44, Bryce Harrington schreef:
>>> Hi Maarten,
>>>
>>> It looks like 1010794 is close to done?  There's still a couple open
>>> tasks for precise and quantal against the ddx though; does anything else
>>> need done for those, or can the bug be closed out now?
>> Closing is fine. It was really a xserver problem that nouveau hit more often than others.
> Sounds good, I've made it so.  Thanks for investigating that bug.
>
> IIRC, that one had been one of the blockers for doing unredirected
> fullscreen games in precise.  I've asked if they know of other issues we
> should look at.  Beyond that, if you have time you might want to try
> unblacklisting nouveau in CCSM on precise and try playing some 3D full
> screen games and see if you can find any crashes or other misbehaviors.
I'm giving this a higher chance of working with quantal or raring X stack on precise.

I queued some fixes to the mesa 9 branch from git master that should get in to 9.0.2,
which does help stability a lot.

With the entire drm abi rework between 9 and 8, I don't think it even applies to earlier versions.
>>> Aside from that, how are things going with the LTS point release stack
>>> update?  I know freeze is coming up real soon now; do you need help with
>>> anything?
>>>
>> All parts are in. :-)
> Awesome to hear.  Do you plan on priming the r-lts-backport ppa next, or
> wait until we've landed some newer stuff into raring?
Been doing some preliminary work, uploading packages to my staging ppa with arm builders.

https://launchpad.net/~mlankhorst/+archive/ppa

It's mostly identical right now, but that is a good thing. I'll try to copy the packages to the raring backports ppa
next when everything finished building, so others can test the transitioning mechanics as well if they want.
> Earlier you mentioned you were working on some synchronization rework
> patches, is that still on your todo list?  Got anything else on your
> todo list?
>
Testing the reverse optimus support patches by airlied for X and ddx's. These patches will benefit
the most from the work I've been doing, so actually having a good testcase instead of just
running games in windowed mode would rock. Also had the displeasure of dealing with radeon
fallout inside kernel. Because I touched something last I, I ended up being responsible for it.
So now I have a few upstreamed radeon patches to my name. :)

Other things on todo list are:
- getting mesa sru in precise, so the unrenamed -dev packages work with the renamed -dev stack.
- making sure quantal stack works correctly  (apart from first item, nothing atm)
- transitioning to x1.14 (postponed slightly)
- checking up with airlied if x1.14 supports opengl arb robustness for graphics card switching, and maybe add support to compiz for
that after updating xserver (blocked on x1.14).

~Maarten