On Sat, 2011-02-19 at 06:12 +1000, Dave Airlie wrote:
On Fri, 2011-02-18 at 11:50 -0800, Adam Williamson wrote:
> Hey, folks. At the blocker review meeting today we agreed that we were
> not in a position to decide on the status of these potential blockers:
>
>
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=677842
>
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=677371
>
> they apparently cause an unusable system as Shell repeatedly crashes and
> fallback mode does not kick in. We are unsure of the extent of the
> impact; several different reporters seem to have hit these (including
> the Chinese install testers, though they didn't add a comment to the
> bug, they mentioned it in their test report).
Looks like all post r600 ATI cards would be affected, something must
have changed in mutter to trigger this, the quickest solution I can see
at the moment is to rebase mesa and pray. If you want a targeted fix
it'll take longer to actually work out why its going so horribly wrong.
Thanks for the info! Can you quantify 'longer'? If we delayed Alpha by a
week, would that be enough time?
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