<div dir="ltr"> <div class="gmail_quote">2008/9/11 Josh Boyer <<a href="mailto:jwboyer@gmail.com">jwboyer@gmail.com</a>> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div class="Ih2E3d">On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 01:46:04PM -0400, Jeremy Katz wrote: >On Thu, 2008-09-11 at 13:09 -0400, Adam Jackson wrote: >> On Thu, 2008-09-11 at 11:06 -0400, Jeremy Katz wrote: >> > On Thu, 2008-09-11 at 17:18 +1000, Dave Airlie wrote: >> > > For the beta we are only going to enable Radeon support for the r300 to >> > > r500 class of hardware, while we await upstream changes to the Intel >> > > driver. >> > >> > ... we really shouldn't shove in major changes like this for a >> > significant chunk of hardware post-beta. Putting it in the beta means >> > that we get a relatively large chunk of testing done due to the >> > visibility surrounding the beta announce. As well as having time to fix >> > large problems that are uncovered. Later milestones both a) lack the >> > time for changes after them and b) the visibility. >> >> So are you saying: >> >> a) enable it for both, see what breaks > >I've been advocating us getting the pieces merged for a long time so >that we could see what was broken rather than trying to wait for a >mythical "perfection" that's been just another week or two out for on >the order of months now. > >> b) remove both, because, screw it > >This is a part of the contingency plan. But removing for both seems a >little extreme. > >There's also c) Just enable it for radeon. Intel users get pretty </div>It's not working very well on radeon either. My laptop never gets a display (i686), and it's hosed on ppc in general.</blockquote><div> Neither my trusty old r200 nor my shiny new r600 experience any issues booting in the default configuration, however there is no sign of acceleration so the X experience is so slow as to be practically useless. I trust the regression will go away by stable, I will help any way I am able to make it so (which frankly does not go beyond testing new code and reporting back). - David - David </div></div> </div>