From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mark H Weaver Subject: Re: wip-xorg-server-1.18 Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2016 16:17:13 -0500 Message-ID: <87bn77rusm.fsf@netris.org> References: <87fuwp688y.fsf@pobox.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:52179) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aYKKk-0005lF-Fj for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Feb 2016 16:17:27 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aYKKg-0002JJ-6b for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Feb 2016 16:17:26 -0500 Received: from world.peace.net ([50.252.239.5]:39211) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aYKKg-0002JF-3C for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Feb 2016 16:17:22 -0500 In-Reply-To: <87fuwp688y.fsf@pobox.com> (Andy Wingo's message of "Thu, 18 Feb 2016 22:03:57 +0100") List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Andy Wingo Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Hi Andy, Andy Wingo writes: > My Broadwell laptop hasn't had working accelerated OpenGL since I > installed it. It was using the llvmpipe, a software path. Eventually > when I looked into it, it turned out that was because the > xf86-video-intel package was too old and disabled acceleration for my > chipset. So I wrote an xorg updater, which uncovered about 62 package > updates. There are in wip-xorg-server-1.18, or eventually will be once > the send-email git hook finishes running. Awesome, thanks for taking this on! Hydra has been building this (along with the pulseaudio, gstreamer, and libvpx updates) on the 'media-updates' branch. One problem that has turned up is that 6 of the video drivers you updated no longer build, because our local patches no longer apply cleanly to them: http://hydra.gnu.org/build/1039955 (xf86-video-mga) http://hydra.gnu.org/build/1037199 (xf86-video-r128) http://hydra.gnu.org/build/1036050 (xf86-video-siliconmotion) http://hydra.gnu.org/build/1034473 (xf86-video-tdfx) http://hydra.gnu.org/build/1040961 (xf86-video-trident) http://hydra.gnu.org/build/1043614 (xf86-video-vmware) There's another video driver that you didn't update, but that no longer builds against the new xorg-server: http://hydra.gnu.org/build/1042309 (xf86-video-voodoo) Updating these poorly maintained video drivers has always been the biggest hindrance to updating xorg-server, and is the reason that my last attempt on the wip-xorg-server-1.17 branch stalled. Thanks, Mark