At this point, I haven't pushed a new release tag for xf86-video-freedreno to update to latest xserver ABI. I'm inclined not to. If you are using a modern xserver you probably want to be using xf86-video-modesetting + glamor. It has more features (dri3, xv, etc) and better performance. And GL support on a3xx/a4xx is pretty solid. So distros with a modern xserver might as well drop the xf86-video-freedreno package.
The one case where xf86-video-freedreno is still useful is bringing up a new generation of adreno, since it can do dri2 with pure-sw fallbacks for all the EXA ops. But if that is what you are doing, I guess you know how to git clone and build.
The possible alternative is to push a patch that makes xf86-video-freedreno still build, but only probe (with latest xserver ABI) if some "ForceLoad" type option is given in xorg.conf, otherwise fallback to modesetting/glamor. I can't think of a good reason to do this at the moment. But as always, questions/comments/suggestions welcome.
The one case where xf86-video-freedreno is still useful is bringing up a new generation of adreno, since it can do dri2 with pure-sw fallbacks for all the EXA ops. But if that is what you are doing, I guess you know how to git clone and build.
The possible alternative is to push a patch that makes xf86-video-freedreno still build, but only probe (with latest xserver ABI) if some "ForceLoad" type option is given in xorg.conf, otherwise fallback to modesetting/glamor. I can't think of a good reason to do this at the moment. But as always, questions/comments/suggestions welcome.
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