Fwd: 1.7 and 7.5 status: we're frozen

[Dialup Jon Norstog]

Matt,

I care enough to join.  Just point the way (link)

BTW, IBM just announced details of the forthcoming Power 7 CPU.  Four cores
each with quad multithreading, 4.0 Ghz.  Novakovic notes in his article in
Inquirer that core-for-core the new chip just about matches the EV8 - ten
years later.

later

jn

---------- Original Message -----------
From: Matt Turner <mattst88 at gmail.com>
To: Linux on Alpha processors <axp-list at redhat.com>, alpha at gentoo.org,
debian-alpha at lists.debian.org
Sent: Mon, 31 Aug 2009 20:42:16 -0400
Subject: Fwd: 1.7 and 7.5 status: we're frozen

> Hi Alpha users,
> 
> I just received the attached email from the xorg-devel list. X.Org 7.5
> (xserver-1.7) has been frozen for release. I've not been able to get 
> it to work on Alpha.
> 
> I just received xserver commit access today, and I want to make sure
> that X.Org 7.5 works on Alpha in time for its release - so I need 
> your help.
> 
> Gentoo users: please use the x11 overlay from layman and build
> xorg-server-9999 with associated dependencies.
> Debian/Fedora/other: please build X.Org from git.
> 
> I need testing of various video cards/drivers, namely
>   o xf86-video-ati, with[0] and without KMS
>   o xf86-video-glint [0]
>   o xf86-video-mga
> 
> I don't care if you don't like IRC, please join for a couple days to
> help us make sure that we can have a quality X.Org/Alpha release.
> #alpha on Freenode.
> 
> Additionally, there is a lot of code in the xserver to support Alphas
> without BWX instructions (EV4 and EV5, EV56+ has BWX). We could 
> really clean up a lot of cruft by dropping support for these 
> systems. Also, removing this extra layer of indirection might 
> provide a small speed-up for BWX-enabled Alphas.
> 
> So, does anyone care about X on EV4 or EV5 Alphas?
> 
> I've cross-posted, so make sure you hit Reply-All.
> 
> Thanks,
> Matt Turner
> 
> [0] http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23227
> [1] http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21546
> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Daniel Stone <daniel at fooishbar.org>
> Date: Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 8:19 PM
> Subject: 1.7 and 7.5 status: we're frozen
> To: xorg-devel at lists.x.org
> 
> Hi,
> Sorry for the paucity of updates (as well as progress).
> 
> After a chat with Peter, we decided to postpone XKB2 (yet again) to 
> 1.8, to give it more time to mature, as opposed to just dropping it 
> in the tree, and also to allow us to make any updates to Xi that may 
> be required after actually deploying it with 1.7.
> 
> This means that we're not blocking on anything major for 1.7 bar
> stabilisation work and bug fixes, which means ...
> 
> XSERVER IS FROZEN.  PLEASE DON'T COMMIT ANYTHING MAJOR, OR ANY API
> BREAKS, WITHOUT CHECKING WITH ME AND/OR PETER FIRST.
> 
> 1.6.99.900 will be rolled some time over the weekend, with .901 to
> follow fairly shortly after that.  We'll branch the server when it makes
> sense -- probably pretty close to .901 or .902.
> 
> Xi proto/libs need a final release at some stage, but most of the other
> modules are looking fairly good at the moment, and indeed already 
> have releases.
> 
> I'm hoping this means a final 1.7 and 7.5 release shortly before, or
> during, XDC.
> 
> If you maintain a weird platform, please get building the stack and let
> us know of any problems so we can release a 7.5 that actually works
> everywhere.
> 
> As always, please let me know if you have any questions.
> 
> Cheers,
> Daniel
> 
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