Bug#732216: xserver-xorg-video-radeon: Driver does not support Glamor 2D acceleration

[Jan Binder <wheel@herr-der-mails.de>]

Am Sonntag, 15. Dezember 2013, 19:32:33 schrieb Julien Cristau:
> On Sun, Dec 15, 2013 at 19:26:10 +0100, Jan Binder wrote:
> > Package: xserver-xorg-video-radeon
> > Version: 1:7.2.0-1+b2
> > Severity: important
> > 
> > Dear Maintainer,
> > 
> > On newer Radeon cards from the Southern Islands and Northern Islands 
> > family, Xorg does not really work "out of the box" due to missing
> > libglamor support in the ddx and missing libglamor.
> > 
> > The libglamor package even exists as a Debian repository as an unreleased
> > version and recompiling the ddx with this package and --enable-glamor
> > even works, so why force me to do all of this myself and have apt remove
> > all of my xorg installation every time X gets some update, just because
> > the maintainer will only look after the ubuntu branch of that package?
> If you care about this and want to look after this driver (and the
> glamor package) in Debian, I'm sure that'll be appreciated.
> 
> Cheers,
> Julien

So the first step would be creating an ITP bug, finding out what makes the 
unpublished code unfit for upload, fixing that and looking for a sponsor?

Jan