FS#25115 - [xf86-video-intel] Please enable SNA in next version

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by David J. Haines (dhaines) - Tuesday, 12 July 2011, 14:56 GMT
Last edited by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Tuesday, 02 August 2011, 19:14 GMT
Task Type Feature Request
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To Jan de Groot (JGC)
Architecture All
Severity Medium
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 3
Private No

Details

The git version of the intel driver now has included the SandyBridge's New Acceleration (SNA) code, which reportedly provides a good speed bump and which fixes some problems with transparency (and possibly other things) even on non Sandy Bridge architectures, e.g. https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38823.

Please enable SNA on the next release (assuming it's bug-free enough) by including the --enable-sna flag on the ./configure in the PKGBUILD.

Thanks!
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Closed by  Jan de Groot (JGC)
Tuesday, 02 August 2011, 19:14 GMT
Reason for closing:  Won't implement
Additional comments about closing:  We'll include it when it's ready. So far this feature is experimental and it requires additional patching inside xorg-server. So far there's no support 1.10 and 1.11, as these patches will break ABI.
Comment by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Wednesday, 13 July 2011, 17:47 GMT
We'll probably make a split-build that builds two packages: one with SNA and one without. SNA will probably have a lot of regressions and it's a compile-time feature, so it's better to provide both.

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