Hello all!

As some of you might have noticed I just pushed out the SVGA driver to  
the Mesa repository. For those that didn't please read on.

The driver requires Xorg 1.7.x and the vmwgfx kernel driver.

You can get the userspace driver from the mesa repository on the  
master branch now, but the kernel driver should be available tomorrow  
at git://git.freedesktop.org/git/mesa/vmwgfx.git sorry about that.

The SVGA OpenGL driver is the first production ready Gallium3D driver.  
However the kernel driver and both DRI and Xorg state tracker are only  
beta quality, we are going to stabilize the state trackers on the 7.7  
mesa branch. While aiming for inclusion of the vmwgfx kernel driver  
for in linux 2.6.33.

The driver was a team effort with Keith, José, Stephen, Michel,  
Michal, Zack, Thomas, Vinson, Alan and myself all making  
contributions. All building on top of the work done in Gallium and Mesa.

Short about the Xorg 1.7.x requirement, the driver will run on 1.6.x  
server but due optimization in exa made for 1.7.x it will be horribly  
slow (I kid you not). We are looking into fixing this somehow.

Just to repeat you can not test it yet as the kernel driver isn't out  
there, but will be shortly.

Cheers Jakob.
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