This is a maintenance release on the 2.7 branch. Compared to 2.7.0 it consists only of a few carefully hand-picked fixes for bugs, (including GPU crashers). We encourage all users of 2.7.0 to upgrade to 2.7.1.
We have verified that several of the reported bugs of GPU crashes, (mouse continues to move, but otherwise X is totally unresponsive), are fixed with the commit by Keith Packard in 2.7.1 to correct the computation of the batch space required. If you have previously reported a GPU-crash bug in bugs.freedesktop.org, please test with 2.7.1 and report your findings in the bug. If the crash is fixed, please celebrate with us! If the crash persists, please attach the output of intel_gpu_dump available here (and hopefully packaged in your distribution of choice soon): git://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/xorg/app/intel-gpu-tools (Requires Linux kernel >= 2.6.30) Thanks to everyone who has helped to improve this driver! -Carl PS. The 2.7.1 release is equivalent (other than the version number) to the 2.7.0.901 release candidate announced earlier. How to obtain the release ------------------------- git tag: 2.7.1 http://xorg.freedesktop.org/archive/individual/driver/xf86-video-intel-2.7.1.tar.bz2 MD5: 0eed17138da18ff1fb2b8ab0f076d957 xf86-video-intel-2.7.1.tar.bz2 SHA1: f863ee65b4b7779077af9f819b07033264284628 xf86-video-intel-2.7.1.tar.bz2 http://xorg.freedesktop.org/archive/individual/driver/xf86-video-intel-2.7.1.tar.gz MD5: e8cc1d6fe60e23891704b3453f1f9dba xf86-video-intel-2.7.1.tar.gz SHA1: e43894e3d96f4b45e1191bc05bc2b8880844e15e xf86-video-intel-2.7.1.tar.gz Bug fixes since 2.7.0: ---------------------- * KMS: Hook up output properties for RANDR, (this allows output properties to be controlled in the KMS case just as in the UMS case). [Zhenyu Wang <zhenyu.z.w...@intel.com>] * Fix multiplication error when computing required batch space. This could fix any number of cases where the driver did inexplicable things (due to having computed the wrong size). [Keith Packard <kei...@keithp.com>] * Hold reference to video binding table until all rects are painted. This prevent general chaos in the buffer manager. [Keith Packard <kei...@keithp.com>] * Split i915 textured video commands to fit into batch buffers. Video and 3D setup commands share the same batch buffer, so without this fix, various problems could occur when video and 3D clients were both heavily active at the same time. [Keith Packard <kei...@keithp.com>] * Fix crash with XV with large virtual display (> 2049). [Albert Damen <al...@gmx.net>] * Provide missing value to 3D_STATE_VERTEX_BUFFERS command. We don't know that this was causing any problem, but the change does bring the driver into conformance with what the specification says the hardware requires here. [Keith Packard <kei...@keithp.com>]
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