From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sun May 21 00:25:38 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E04A216A446 for ; Sun, 21 May 2006 00:25:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kaiwai.gardiner@gmail.com) Received: from grunt5.ihug.co.nz (grunt5.ihug.co.nz [203.109.254.45]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D82243D6E for ; Sun, 21 May 2006 00:25:38 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kaiwai.gardiner@gmail.com) Received: from 203-173-144-115.bliink.ihug.co.nz ([192.168.1.4]) [203.173.144.115] by grunt5.ihug.co.nz with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1FhblI-0005P5-00; Sun, 21 May 2006 12:25:36 +1200 From: Matthew Gardiner To: noackjr@alumni.rice.edu, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Date: Sun, 21 May 2006 12:26:53 +1200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 References: <200605211042.20646.kaiwai.gardiner@gmail.com> <446F9E14.5050701@alumni.rice.edu> In-Reply-To: <446F9E14.5050701@alumni.rice.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200605211226.53471.kaiwai.gardiner@gmail.com> Cc: Subject: Re: drm/dri rocks X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 21 May 2006 00:25:42 -0000 On Sunday 21 May 2006 10:54, Jonathan Noack wrote: > On 05/20/06 18:42, Matthew Gardiner wrote: > > On Sunday 21 May 2006 06:41, Jonathan Noack wrote: > >> On 05/19/06 01:44, Matthew Gardiner wrote: > >>> On Friday 19 May 2006 05:07, Ronald Klop wrote: > >>>> This commit of the drm/dri stuff yesterday on 6-STABLE rocks. > >>>> It works out of the box on my i810. > >>>> > >>>> I think FreeBSD is now ready for the desktop since xlock looks really > >>>> cool. > >>> > >>> Pardon? the DRM/DRI stuff yesturday? going by the ports/graphics/dri, > >>> it hasn't been touched in over three months. > >> > >> He was referring to an update of the kernel drivers: > >> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/cvs-src/2006-May/063838.html > >> > >> -Jonathan > > > > So I assume that those updates will appear in 6.2 or some other future > > update? > > Correct, these updates will appear in 6.2. > > > how does RELENG_6 differ from my setup of RELENG_6_1? > > RELENG_6 is the branch from which 6.x releases are built. During the > 6.1 release cycle, the RELENG_6 branch was "copied" to create the > RELENG_6_1 errata branch, from which 6.1-RELEASE was actually built. > New features and bug fixes for 6.2 go into RELENG_6, but only security > and critical bug fixes will go into RELENG_6_1. In regards to stability, how stable are these additions? I'm assuming they've gone through a pretty rigorous testing before merging? Matty