Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2012 09:25:42 -0600 (MDT) From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> To: Martin Wilke <miwi@freebsd.org> Cc: ports@freebsd.org, x11@freebsd.org, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [CFT] Xorg 7.7 ready for testing! Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1206070801250.53425@wonkity.com> In-Reply-To: <20120607203753.2466c63a.miwi@FreeBSD.org> References: <20120607203753.2466c63a.miwi@FreeBSD.org>
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On Thu, 7 Jun 2012, Martin Wilke wrote: > The FreeBSD Xorg Team is pleased to announce Xorg 7.7 Release. We are > very happy to be able to Call for testing shortly after the Xorg team > annouced 7.7 release. Thanks for your work on this! > This CFT is also open for discussion on how we should move forward > with xorg release as we are facing some issues and we would like to > ask for your opinion. Right now we have 2 existing xorg versions in > our Ports Tree. The situation is quite bad due to our poor graphic > card support. That means we do not have much choice but to take it as > how it is now. But with regards to mesa support, we have to face some > new challanges. > > With the new mesa 8.0 release, accelerated support for a number of > older graphic cards was dropped. At the moment we are not sure how to > deal with that.We are thinking of just replacing mesa 7.11 with 8.0 or > making a new flag like WITH_MESA= 7.11.2 / 8.0 in combination with > WITH_NEW_XORG, and let the mesa 7.6.1 set as default together with the > old xorg version. WITH_NEW_XORG is already vague, right now we have two that could be considered new. Would WITH_XORG=7.5 or WITH_XORG=7.7 work? That makes it easier to tell what is being requested; "new" is a relative term.
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