[regression] GNOME 46/47 dropped support for Xilinx Mali graphics
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Mutter |
Fix Released
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Unknown
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mutter (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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High
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Daniel van Vugt | ||
Noble |
Fix Committed
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High
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Daniel van Vugt | ||
Oracular |
Fix Released
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High
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Daniel van Vugt |
Bug Description
[ Impact ]
Xilinx Mali support was originally written for GNOME 42 but it has bitrotted since then. We need to apply a few fixes to get it working again in GNOME 46 (Ubuntu 24.04 LTS) and later:
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[ Test Plan ]
1. Log into an Ubuntu (GNOME + Wayland) session on Xilinx hardware.
2. Verify you can log in, there are no obvious rendering failures and that it really is a Wayland session (environment XDG_SESSION_
[ Where problems could occur ]
The Mutter/GNOME startup procedure had to be modified for this fix as well as some texture format parameters. So there is a small risk to:
(a) The ability of any machine to log into a Wayland session; and
(b) Rendering correctness once logged in.
[ Other Info ]
tags: | added: udeng-4548 |
summary: |
- [mali] gnome-shell segfaults in _cogl_context_get_gl_extensions() at - startup on Xilinx + Restore support for Xilinx Mali in GNOME 46 and later |
description: | updated |
tags: | added: oracular regression-release |
summary: |
- Restore support for Xilinx Mali in GNOME 46 and later + [regression] GNOME 46/47 dropped support for Xilinx Mali graphics |
description: | updated |
Changed in mutter: | |
status: | Unknown → Fix Released |
Changed in mutter (Ubuntu Noble): | |
status: | In Progress → Triaged |
assignee: | Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt) → nobody |
assignee: | nobody → Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt) |
tags: | added: fixed-in-mutter-47.1 fixed-upstream |
description: | updated |
tags: | added: desktop-needs-sru |
Changed in mutter (Ubuntu Noble): | |
assignee: | Talha Can Havadar (tchavadar) → Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt) |
Fixes proposed: /gitlab. gnome.org/ GNOME/mutter/ -/merge_ requests/ 4019 /gitlab. gnome.org/ GNOME/mutter/ -/merge_ requests/ 4021
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