On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 2:32 PM, Martin Langhoff martin@laptop.org wrote:
On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 9:26 AM, Peter Robinson pbrobinson@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 2:21 PM, Martin Langhoff martin@laptop.org wrote:
Excellent! Thanks for this! I am pretty worried with the removal of gnome fallback -- I can't see sw rendering being usable on XO-1, and probably a lot of magic will be required for a bearable user experience on XO-1.5.
I don't think its the case for F17, but likely will be in the future.
Hmmm, ajax and Adam Williamson are talking about rawhide. Rawhide hasn't forked for F17, so when I read:
On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 5:57 PM, Adam Jackson ajax@redhat.com wrote:
As of tomorrow's rawhide [1], gnome-session will no longer treat llvmpipe as an unsupported driver. This means gnome-shell will run even on hardware without a native 3D driver, including virt guests.
I read "it's coming to F17". No maybes; unless we organize a big browhaha on fedora-devel, file tearful bugs, and generally stage a drama about this to lobby for a reversal.
Yes, its coming to F17 as a feature, as I said previously, that doesn't mean that Fallback mode is going away in F17. I suspect depending on how this process goes as part of F17 the fallback mode will then likely disappear in F18. The FPL already has a XO-1 and from the "merge the big XO F7 fork back into Fedora" that happened around F9/10 there were around 50 odd XO-1s distributed through the community then.
What is the state of merging out VIA driver back into mainline? That would certainly help from the XO 1.5 PoV.
Peter