Sounds good, I'll wait until the next staging cycle then!

On Tue, 27 Feb 2018 15:59:38 +0100
Marius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com> wrote:

> Hi!
> 
> (+CC guix-devel for visibility)
> 
> Rutger Helling <rhelling@mykolab.com> writes:
> 
> > This patch updates Mesa to 17.3.6 in staging. I didn't push it right
> > away, since I know the plan was to merge staging in a few days.
> >
> > However, I do recommend we push this patch in before, since
> > apparently 17.3.6 fixes a number of problems with Intel GPU hangups
> > that are present in the 17.3 series.  
> 
> Here is the release announcement:
> 
> https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/mesa-announce/2018-February/000403.html
> 
> According to the announcement, the regressions were introduced in the
> development of 17.3, so we've already had the bugs for a while.
> 
> Since updating mesa now would cause a lot of new rebuilds, I think we
> should wait.  However, we could graft it if we get reports about GPU
> lockups, or maybe even pre-emptively.  WDYT?