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[Bryce Harrington <bryce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 11:24:59PM +0100, Maarten Lankhorst wrote:
> 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. :)

Ok, so sounds like nothing super urgent.

I've asked Henry to ask NVIDIA next week about updating tegra3 for the
new ABI.  Let's see what we hear from that, and then decide.

Bryce