Re: current state of Intel support
Johannes Lundberg <[email protected]>
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On Tue, May 8, 2018 at 9:34 AM, Zane C. B-H. <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2018-05-08 03:22, Johannes Lundberg wrote: > >> On Tue, May 8, 2018 at 9:01 AM, Zane C. B-H. <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I am curious, where are we at on 11 stable when it comes to support for >>> newer Intel chipsets? Just wondering how usable X is when it comes to >>> x5-Z8350 Cherry trail or the like. >>> >>> >> Hi >> >> I've been running 12-CURRENT with drm 4.9 successfully on Cherry Trail but >> that was a while ago. Currently all my Atom boards are on a different >> continent so I haven't been able to do any testing lately with the >> backported drm code to 11-stable. >> It should work fine but if there's any issues you can always run with the >> scfb driver for now. The Z8350 is fast so it can handle software rendering >> quite good. >> > > Awesome. On a related note, looking at scfb, it looks like rotattion is > supported, which is great. > > Any way to do this on the console? Looking at some of the GPD Pocket like > ultra portables and these tend to come up like a tablet, meaning the > console is rotated. > I'm not sure it's possible to rotate the console but should be doable with UEFI and newcons. Maybe a suitable summer project for someone? :) The GPD Pocket looks nice. I probably get one myself when I have more time to play with it. There is a blog post about running FreeBSD on it here: https://adventurist.me/posts/0288 _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-x11 To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"