svn commit: r46173 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status
Benjamin Kaduk <[email protected]>
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Author: bjk
Date: Thu Jan 8 19:59:11 2015
New Revision: 46173
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/46173
Log:
Add report from the graphics team
Approved by: hrs (mentor, blanket)
Modified:
head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-10-2014-12.xml
Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-10-2014-12.xml
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--- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-10-2014-12.xml Thu Jan 8 19:40:36 2015 (r46172)
+++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-10-2014-12.xml Thu Jan 8 19:59:11 2015 (r46173)
@@ -1045,4 +1045,91 @@
</help>
</project>
+ <project cat='ports'>
+ <title>The Graphics stack on FreeBSD</title>
+
+ <contact>
+ <person>
+ <name>FreeBSD Graphics team</name>
+ <email>[email protected]</email>
+ </person>
+ </contact>
+
+ <links>
+ <url href="https://wiki.freebsd.org/Graphics">Graphics stack roadmap and supported hardware matrix</url>
+ <url href="http://blogs.freebsdish.org/graphics/">Graphics stack team blog</url>
+ <url href="https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-ports-graphics">Ports development tree on GitHub</url>
+ </links>
+
+ <body>
+ <p>Mesa was upgraded to 10.3, then 10.4 for FreeBSD 10.1-RELEASE and
+ 11-CURRENT. We test release candidates and therefore this port is
+ now usually updated shortly after a new release. Mesa 10.x brings
+ huge improvements in terms of OpenGL standards support, performance
+ and stability, especially for Radeon owners. Mesa 9.1 is kept for
+ FreeBSD 9.x, but we have plans to fix this; see below.</p>
+
+ <p><tt>graphics/gbm</tt> and <tt>devel/libclc</tt> are new ports used
+ by Mesa to implement OpenCL. The next step is to finish the port for
+ Mesa's libOpenCL.so, named Clover. This will permit users to run
+ OpenCL programs on Radeon GPUs for now.</p>
+
+ <p>xserver was upgraded from 1.12 to 1.14. This is the last version
+ of xserver supporting Mesa 9.1. Changes are described in an article
+ on the blog. The most noticeable one is probably the switch from
+ the input device detection back-end based on HAL to the one based on
+ devd. hald(8) is still required by many desktop environments, but
+ the X.Org server itself is free from it.</p>
+
+ <p>xserver was the last port supporting the <tt>WITH_NEW_XORG</tt>
+ knob. The knob is now completely removed. This was the occasion to
+ add <tt>WITH_NEW_XORG</tt> and <tt>WITH_KMS</tt> to the list of
+ deprecated knobs to help people clean up their <tt>make.conf</tt>.
+ At the same time, the new-xorg alternate pkg repository was
+ deprecated.</p>
+
+ <p>After discussion, two patent-encumbered options were enabled by
+ default:</p>
+ <ul>
+ <li><tt>TEXTURE_FLOAT</tt> in graphics/dri, which allows Mesa to
+ advertise the support for OpenGL 3.0+;</li>
+ <li><tt>LCD_FILTERING</tt> in print/freetype2, which enables the
+ subpixel rendering engine, improving font anti-aliasing.</li>
+ </ul>
+ <p>These two packages now provide a better user experience
+ out-of-the-box. Users who are uncomfortable with the options may
+ unset them and rebuild the ports. There is no need to rebuild
+ anything else.</p>
+
+ <p>On the kernel side, Tijl Coosemans added AGP support back to the
+ TTM memory manager and therefore to the Radeon driver. His work was
+ merged back to stable/10 and will be available in FreeBSD
+ 10.2-RELEASE.</p>
+
+ <p>We migrated our Ports development tree to Git and GitHub. Tracking
+ changes in the official Ports tree and preparing patches is way
+ easier. Furthermore, we can accept pull requests. All reasons behind
+ this change are detailed on the blog and the workf-low is described
+ on the wiki.</p>
+
+ <p>The XDC 2014 (X Developer's Conference) was a great conference.
+ Reviving the relationship with the developers of the graphics
+ stack was a success! A report is available on the blog.</p>
+
+ <p>Our next items on the roadmap are:</p>
+ <ol>
+ <li>Provide FreeBSD 10.1-RELEASE's i915 driver to FreeBSD 9.x users
+ through a new port. This is a work in progress, but it would allow
+ us to remove Mesa 9.1 and make Mesa 10.4 available everywhere.</li>
+ <li>Once Mesa 9.1 is gone, we can update xserver to 1.16.</li>
+ </ol>
+ </body>
+
+ <help>
+ <task>
+ <p>See the "Graphics" wiki page for up-to-date information.</p>
+ </task>
+ </help>
+ </project>
+
</report>
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