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Add report from the Graphics team (submitted by Jean-Sébastien Pédron

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</task>
</help>
</project>
<project cat="proj">
<title>The Graphics stack on FreeBSD</title>
<contact>
<person>
<name>
<common>FreeBSD Graphics team</common>
</name>
<email>freebsd-x11@FreeBSD.org</email>
</person>
</contact>
<links>
<url href="https://wiki.freebsd.org/Graphics">Graphics stack roadmap and supported hardware matrix</url>
<url href="https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-ports-graphics">Ports development tree on GitHub</url>
<url href="https://fosdem.org/2016/schedule/event/freebsd_graphic_stack/">FreeBSD Graphics Team at FOSDEM 2016</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/SummerOfCodeIdeas#Devices_management:_redesign_and_rewrite_libdevq">GSoC 2016: redesign libdevq</url>
</links>
<body>
<p>The major news for this quarter is the update of the i915
driver in the kernel! The driver now matches Linux 3.8.13, so
it includes initial Haswell support. Linux 3.8 is already
three years old, but work continues to upgrade DRM further.
In particular, the move to <tt>linuxkpi</tt> was started.</p>
<p>In the Ports tree, Mesa was updated to 11.1.2. The next minor
release, 11.2.0, is ready for testing in our development tree.
We also updated libclc to 0.2.0.20151006, a library used by
Mesa to provide OpenCL support.</p>
<p>We attended FOSDEM 2016 in Brussels. Jean-S??bastien P??dron
gave a talk to explain the work of the graphics team and show
how people can contribute. It was well received and the
presentation was followed by interesting discussions. FOSDEM
was also a nice occasion to meet and talk again to the nice
"upstream" developers of the graphics stack.</p>
<p>For the first year, we added two ideas for GSoC 2016: one for
a kernel task, one to redesign libdevq. Six students
submitted a proposal for those two ideas, that was unexpected!
We now need to decide which one we want to mentor and the
choice is difficult.</p>
<p>The blog is still down. We started to work on a replacement.
We will probably go with a static generated website hosted on
GitHub pages.</p>
</body>
<help>
<task>
<p>See the "Graphics" wiki page for up-to-date
information.</p>
</task>
</help>
</project>
</report>