svn commit: r49083 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status
Dru Lavigne <[email protected]>
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Author: dru
Date: Sat Jul 9 17:04:34 2016
New Revision: 49083
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/49083
Log:
Incorporate patch to Graphics update.
Submitted by: kwm
Sponsored by: iXsystems
Modified:
head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2016-04-2016-06.xml
Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2016-04-2016-06.xml
==============================================================================
--- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2016-04-2016-06.xml Sat Jul 9 14:00:31 2016 (r49082)
+++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2016-04-2016-06.xml Sat Jul 9 17:04:34 2016 (r49083)
@@ -1033,10 +1033,15 @@
</project>
<project cat='proj'>
- <title>Graphics Update</title>
+ <title>The Graphics Stack on &os;</title>
<contact>
<person>
+ <name>&os; Graphics team</name>
+ <email>[email protected]</email>
+ </person>
+
+ <person>
<name>
<given>Matthew</given>
<common>Macy</common>
@@ -1047,9 +1052,27 @@
<links>
<url href="https://github.com/FreeBSDDesktop/freebsd-base-graphics">GitHub Repository</url>
+ <url href="http://wiki.FreeBSD.org/Graphics">Graphics Stack Roadmap and Supported Hardware Matrix</url>
+ <url href="https://github.com/FreeBSD/freebsd-ports-graphics">Ports Development Repository</url>
+ <url href="https://github.com/FreeBSDDesktop/freebsd-base-graphics/tree/drm-next-4.6">DRM 4.6 Development Repository</url>
+ <url href="https://wiki.freebsd.org/SummerOfCodeIdeas#Devices_management:_link_.2Fdev_entries_to_sysctl_nodes">GSoC 2016: link /dev entries to sysctl nodes</url>
+ <url href="https://wiki.freebsd.org/SummerOfCode2016/RethinkLibdevq">GSoC 2016: Redesign libdevq </url>
+ <url href="http://planet.freebsd.org/graphics">Graphics Team Blog</url>
</links>
<body>
+ <p>In the Ports tree, Mesa was updated to 11.2.2. The next
+ major release, 12.0.0 release candidate 4, is ready for
+ testing in our development tree.</p>
+
+ <p>The GSoC project about being able to connect a <tt>/dev</tt>
+ entry to <tt>sysctl</tt> nodes is making progress. After some
+ fruitful discussons on the <a
+ href="https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-arch">freebsd-arch@ mailing-list</a>,
+ Kiloreux finished the design and is now implementing the
+ solution. The GSoC project on <tt>libdevq</tt> was
+ abandoned.</p>
+
<p>All Intel GPUs up to and including the unreleased Kaby Lake
are supported. The <tt>xf86-video-intel</tt> driver will be
updated soon. Updating this driver requires updating
@@ -1070,9 +1093,9 @@
processors prior to Sandy Bridge (pre-2010).</li>
</ul>
- <p>I am hoping to be able to diagnose the first two issues,
- along with others, by updating Linux support to the point
- where the Intel GPU Tools work on &os;.</p>
+ <p>Matt Macy is hoping to be able to diagnose the first two
+ issues, along with others, by updating Linux support to the
+ point where the Intel GPU Tools work on &os;.</p>
<p>The Radeon AMD/ATI has been updated to GCN 1.0. This has
only been tested on an R7 240. 2D-accelerated X works. Due
@@ -1082,11 +1105,12 @@
fails in <tt>drm/ttm</tt>, so there may in fact be issues in
the underlying 3D support.</p>
- <p>The AMD/ATI driver has been updated to GCN 1.1 and higher.
- The KMS driver loads and attaches on discrete GPUs, though
- problems still exist on the Carizzo APU. X will not start due
- to unimplemented functions in <tt>libdrm</tt>. Koop Mast is
- actively working on this and should have it fixed soon.</p>
+ <p>The Amdgpu AMD/ATI driver has been updated to GCN 1.1 and
+ higher. The KMS driver loads and attaches on discrete GPUs,
+ though problems still exist on the Carizzo APU. X will not
+ start due to unimplemented functions in <tt>libdrm</tt>. Koop
+ Mast is actively working on this and should have it fixed
+ soon.</p>
<p>None of the required patches to <tt>src/sys</tt> were
committed in time for &os; 11. Although the plan is to
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