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| author | Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk> | 2011-01-07 23:45:06 +0000 |
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| committer | Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk> | 2011-01-07 23:45:06 +0000 |
| commit | 8ecbba2aca657da3894eb77e856ac2d4e9efc0cc (patch) | |
| tree | 4038c52fd5a622c9a51fad6790a72193cdb6e116 | |
| parent | 22d7b61791c382088a6c0df5dce3a15405d6c495 (diff) | |
NEWS: Release notes for 2.14.0
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@@ -1,3 +1,18 @@ +Release 2.14.0 (2011-01-07) +=========================== +We are pleased to announce this major release of the xf86-video-intel +driver, on schedule at 3 months since 2.13.0. With the many bug fixes +in this release, we encourage everyone to upgrade to 2.14. + +The most notable feature of this release is the inclusion of acceleration +support, both RENDER and XVIDEO, for Sandy Bridge; note that this requires +a 2.6.37 kernel. In improving the acceleration code paths to support Sandy +Bridge, we were also able to improve the performance of the general i965+ +RENDER acceleration. For example on i3, glyph (aa10 and rgb10) performance +is about 3x faster, as is performing small copies between windows, with the +improvement becoming negligible once you hit around 100 pixels square. + + Snapshot 2.13.903 (2010-01-04) ============================== This is the second release candidate in preparation for the upcoming |