CFT: Update to xf86-video-ati 7.5.0

[Jean-Sébastien Pédron]

On 31.10.2014 16:53, Miguel Clara wrote:
> Agreed, but ideally one could change as needed... ofc it will always mean
> restart Xorg... IFAIK  you can do it in Linux.

Yes, when we grow support for video cards only used to render things,
you won't have to restart anything.

> On another note, as I've refereed in the other report, my perfect scenario
> for this laptop would be using the intel on host and pass-trough the ati to
> virtualized guest... vbox is not and option and AFAIK bhyve is far from
> that too, but maybe Xen will be a solution soon :)

I don't know for Xen, but even on Linux, GPU virtualization in KVM isn't
for tomorrow. Red Hat is working on the subject through the Virgil
project[1].

> thanks for you're time on this btw, please continue the good work

You're welcome :) You helped a lot to diagnose the problem and test the
patch! An update to xserver 1.14 is almost ready for a CFT. This will
include the patch you tested.

[1] https://virgil3d.github.io/

-- 
Jean-Sébastien Pédron

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