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[Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Op 25-01-13 14:01, Timo Aaltonen schreef:
> On 25.01.2013 00:38, Bryce Harrington wrote:
>> At UDS we made the decision to try to target xserver 1.14 this cycle,
>> although the schedule for the 1.14 release looked tight with its release
>> targeted for March.
>>
>> This cycle's focus is the nexus7, with its tegra3 video driver.  We'll
>> need to get it rebuilt for the new xserver ABI, and still have time for
>> one or two updates in case of bugs.  The former I think is pretty
>> straightforward, and we can just block 1.14 until it exists; the latter,
>> though, I'm less confident about.
>
> For tegra it's not a rebuild but getting a new version from nvidia for the new ABI, in time. That might prove to be hard, I'm told.
>
>> Meanwhile, we also will be having the display server arriving late in
>> cycle, and needing to deal with updates/bugs/testing of that.  We may
>> find ourselves flush with bugs and flat on time...
>>
>>
>> If we were to just skip 1.14 this cycle and stick with 1.13.x, what
>> would we lose out on?
>
> The new input stuff, chance to drop our pointer barrier patch. We could also just sync with upstream there, and otherwise keep 1.13.
>
>
Also some work on hybrid graphics, I think there was some work done on gpu screens, but I don't know if it's exciting enough to warrant a bump of all drivers. :)