On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 12:59 PM, Jeremy Huddleston Sequoia
<jerem...@freedesktop.org> wrote:
>
> On Aug 10, 2012, at 09:54, Alex Deucher <alexdeuc...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 11:58 AM, Jeremy Huddleston Sequoia
>> <jerem...@freedesktop.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Aug 10, 2012, at 03:37, Zhigang Gong <zhigang.g...@linux.intel.com> 
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> to try a full functional xserver with glamor, it’s recommended to use the
>>>> following xserver version:
>>>>
>>>> commit a615b90cab7569fae9d123e4da1d3373c871d84b
>>>>
>>>> Author: Keith Packard <kei...@keithp.com>
>>>>
>>>> Date:   Wed Mar 14 11:32:36 2012 -0700
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>   Bump version number to 1.12.99.0
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>   Now that 1.12 has branched, reset the version on master to a
>>>>
>>>>   development number.
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Why is such an old server version recommended?  Surely tip of 
>>> server-1.12-branch is superior to this branch point+1 on master?  And I'd 
>>> really expect tip of master to be a better candidate than that given the 
>>> development nature of glamor.  Can you please clarify?
>>
>> That should be fine.  The commit is question is just the most recent
>> commit on master that still works prior to the changes that broke the
>> module ordering that broke glamor.
>
> I think you're mistaken.  The commit referenced is just xorg-server-1.12.0 + 
> version change.  It is significantly before the module loading changes.

That was just an uneducated guess on my part.  Glamor does work on
older xservers...  I'll shut up now.

Alex
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