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- Add a Q2 report entry on the xorg work

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<!-- XXX: keep updating the number of entries -->
<p>Thanks to all the reporters for the excellent work! This report
contains 20 entries and we hope you enjoy reading it.</p>
contains 21 entries and we hope you enjoy reading it.</p>
<!-- XXX: set date for the next set of submissions -->
<p>The deadline for submissions covering between July and September 2013
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for more.</p>
</body>
</project>
<project cat='ports'>
<title>xorg on &os;</title>
<contact>
<person>
<email>x11@FreeBSD.org</email>
</person>
<person>
<name>
<given>Niclas</given>
<common>Zeising</common>
</name>
<email>zeising@FreeBSD.org</email>
</person>
<person>
<name>
<given>Koop</given>
<common>Mast</common>
</name>
<email>kwm@FreeBSD.org</email>
</person>
</contact>
<links>
<url href="http://wiki.freebsd.org/Xorg"/>
<url href="http://trillian.chruetertee.ch/ports/browser/trunk"/>
</links>
<body>
<p>During the beginning of this quarter, work focused on making
the <tt>xorg</tt> update as robust and stable as possible in
preparation for the merge to ports. As part of this exp-run
were made, to find and resolve regressions and other issues.
Once this was completed, <tt>xorg</tt> was updated to version
7.7 on May 25, after more than a year of hard work.</p>
<p>After the update, work immediately shifted to focus on updating
and patching <tt>xorg</tt> client libraries, since numerous
security issues had been identified in those. Unfortunately,
this took a little longer than anticipated, but all fixes were
comitted eventually.</p>
<p>There has also been work on making the new <tt>xorg</tt>
distribution the default for &os;&nbsp;9.1 and later. A patch
was sent out and tested with good results, but this is currently
postponed because switching virtual terminals is not working
with the KMS driver.</p>
<p>Currently, work is focusing on keeping <tt>xorg</tt> drivers
and libraries up to date. Instead of making big updates every
year or less, minor updates to some libraries, applications and
drivers happen fairly regularly. Focus is also starting to
shift towards newer versions of MESA and <tt>xorg-server</tt>,
but this is still very experimental.</p>
</body>
<help>
<task>Continue the porting effort of recent versions of MESA.
This is ongoing work, but integrating this into the development
repo is hard work. Once this is completed, and KMS support for
ATI is more mature, more testing can be done.</task>
<task>Port Wayland. The future of graphical environments in open
source operating system seem to be Wayland. This needs to be
ported to &os; so that a wider audience can test it, and so that
it eventually can be integrated into the ports tree, perhaps as
a replacement for the current <tt>xorg</tt>.</task>
<task>Look into replacements for HAL. HAL is used for
hot-plugging of devices, but it has been long abandoned by Linux.
A replacement, perhaps build on top of devd would be nice to
have. This work should be coordinated with the &os; GNOME and
KDE teams.</task>
</help>
</project>
</report>