Date: Sun, 21 May 2006 12:26:53 +1200 From: Matthew Gardiner <kaiwai.gardiner@gmail.com> To: noackjr@alumni.rice.edu, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: drm/dri rocks Message-ID: <200605211226.53471.kaiwai.gardiner@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <446F9E14.5050701@alumni.rice.edu> References: <op.s9ra6mav8527sy@localhost> <200605211042.20646.kaiwai.gardiner@gmail.com> <446F9E14.5050701@alumni.rice.edu>
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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
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