NEWS revision 1.1.1.2
1 Geode 2.11.15 (2013-10-09) 2 ========================== 3 No user-visible change: 4 5 * This release restores compatibility with xserver-1.14 by removing 6 mibstore.h includes and miInitializeBackingStore() functions. 7 Since Nov.2010 (commit c4c4676) the only purpose of mibstore.h 8 was to define an empty function for backward compatibility. 9 10 * Build helpers migrate to contemporary [build-aux] and [m4]. 11 12 Geode 2.11.14 (2012-11-25) 13 ========================== 14 Better compatibility with xserver-1.13, cairo-1.12 and gtk3: 15 16 * Fix building on Xservers without XAA (Maarten Lankhorst) 17 xserver-1.13 dropped XAA acceleration method, as it does not accel 18 anything important used on modern desktops. 19 The geode driver now supports configuring whether to include XAA 20 support - by default it is automatically disabled with newest 21 xservers that do not support it, but can be explicitly disabled for 22 older xservers as well if desired (particularly for LX deployments). 23 XAA support remains in place for the time being for older xservers, 24 as the EXA support for GX2 GPUs is of unknown quality and speed. 25 26 * Fix building with new xserver-1.13 API (Maarten Lankhorst) 27 xserver-1.13 changed API, including moving various global symbols 28 behind function calls, to better support multiple switchable graphics 29 cards and hotplugged (USB) graphics cards. Work done to support both 30 pre-1.13 and 1.13+ APIs in other drivers is reused to bring the same 31 support to the Geode driver. 32 33 * Implement solid source pictures acceleration (Mart Raudsepp) 34 cairo-1.12 uses these extensively for text rendering, instead of 1x1 35 repeating images that cairo-1.10 used and we already accelerate. 36 Without acceleration, in addition to being slow, we'd hit a fallback 37 handling bug in EXA with xserver older than 1.13.1, which results in 38 very visible text corruption in many instances. 39 40 * Handle negative srcX and srcY parameters better in EXA Composite 41 operations, used via the RENDER extension (Mart Raudsepp) 42 Handling of source picture coordinates outside actual source pixmap 43 area is still subpar and ignoring spec in some corner cases, but 44 a more specific case is improved to provide correct results in more 45 situations. In particular this fixes GtkTrayIcon drawing via cairo as 46 used by gtk3, specifically as seen in GNOME3 fallback desktop. 47 Previously no icon was drawn at all if the icon needed centering to the 48 drawing area, which in the end is achieved via a negative srcX/srcY. 49 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51360 50 51 * Fix builds for exotic and/or non-target platforms (Dave Airlie) 52 53 * Clarify the copyright of older AMD commits (Martin-ric Racine) 54 55 VALIDATION PLATFORMS 56 * Debian (X server 1.7.7) on Artec DBE61 and Hercules EC-800. 57 * Debian (X server 1.12.14) on FIC ION603A. 58 * Fedora (X server 1.13) on OLPC XO-1. 59 60 Geode 2.11.13 (2011-12-26) 61 ========================== 62 This release mainly features a complete overhaul of the building scripts plus 63 a cleanup of deprecated macros. The key benefit is that this Geode driver can 64 finally build on FreeBSD and on other platforms not offering V4L2 support and 65 that it can also build on a 64-bit host using its 32-bit personality. 66 67 Support for the Video Input Port (VIP) feature of the Geode LX found in 'ztv' 68 is now documented and the source code saw the removal of deprecated Linux 2.4 69 backward compatibility code. Compiling is skipped on platforms without V4L2. 70 71 Configuration for laptops featuring WXGA resolutions is finally documented. 72 73 Setting the GEODE_TRACE_FALL macro now enables composite operation tracing on 74 this driver. This can be used to profile the performance during development. 75 76 Fixes to keep this driver compilable on recent X servers are also included. 77 78 VALIDATION PLATFORMS 79 * Debian (X server 1.7.7) on Artec DBE61 and Hercules EC-800. 80 * Ubuntu (X server 1.10.4) on FIC ION603A. 81 82 Geode 2.11.12 (2011-02-13) 83 ========================== 84 This release drops the "linux/videodev.h" include in z4l.c because 85 V4L1 support was dropped as of Linux kernel 2.6.38, and it fixes 86 packed overlay offscreen allocations. 87 88 Geode 2.11.11 (2010-12-27) 89 ========================== 90 This release restores code compatibility down to X server 1.4, it fixes 91 compilation under 1.9.99 and newer, and it improves handling of gamma 92 correction in video vs graphics 93 94 Geode 2.11.10 (2010-11-09) 95 ========================== 96 This release migrates deprecated xalloc/xrealloc/xfree/xcalloc calls 97 to malloc/realloc/free/calloc, fixes several DCON-specific issues, 98 improves mode validation and adds support for one WXGA resolution. 99 100 Geode 2.11.9 (2010-08-23) 101 ========================= 102 We are pleased to announce this maintenance release of xf86-video-geode. 103 It features a plethora of bug fixes, a few documentation updates and one 104 performance enhancement. 105 106 This release also marks the return of AMD to the development team. 107 108 Noticeable changes compared to 2.11.8 109 ------------------------------------- 110 * Fixes all known rendering bugs, most notably those pertaining to the 111 GNOME and KDE desktop environments, to video player applications and 112 to the Chrome and Firefox browsers. 113 114 * Dramatically improves the performance: 115 Before After 116 -aa10text 4660/sec 53300/sec 117 -aa24text 2740/sec 16200/sec 118 119 * Validates resolutions rather than resorts to virtual screen sizes. 120 Adds a new screen resolution at 106.50MHz to those we know about. 121 122 * Clarifies the copyrights of each file and updates COPYING to match. 123
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