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</help>
</project>
<project cat="ports">
<title>The Graphics stack on FreeBSD</title>
<project cat='proj'>
<title>The Graphics Stack on &os;</title>
<contact>
<person>
<name>
<common>FreeBSD Graphics team</common>
<common>&os; 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://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>The Mesa ports were updated to 10.6.8. At the same time the
<p>The Mesa ports were updated to 10.6.8. At the same time, the
ports received a major overhaul to make sure all ports are
correctly configured.
Also the dual version support was removed, there is only one
mesa version for all supported FreeBSD versions.
Also the dual version support was removed; there is only one
mesa version for all supported &os; versions.
The libosmesa port was merged into the Mesa framework.</p>
<p>Another big item that was included in the Mesa port was
OpenCL. There are two GPU based OpenCL implimentations
namely:
lang/clover for supported Radeon cards and
<p>Another big item that was included in the Mesa port is
OpenCL. There are two GPU-based OpenCL implementations:
lang/clover for supported Radeon cards, and
lang/beignet for supported Intel cards (currently only
Ivybridge).
Thanks go to Johannes Dieterich, O. Hartman, and Koop Mast
Thanks go to Johannes Dieterich, O. Hartmann, and Koop Mast
for making this happen.</p>
<p>Now that Mesa is up-to-date, we can do the same with the
X.Org server.
Currently at 1.14, an update to 1.17 is ready.
<p>Now that Mesa is up-to-date, we can apply the same update
procedure to the X.Org server. It is currently at 1.14,
and an update to 1.17 is ready.
It should be committed shortly.</p>
<p>On the kernel side progress has been made with the
<p>On the kernel side, progress has been made with the
i915 update. The driver is able to attach.
There are some reports that the X.Org server starts, but Mesa
is unhappy so acceleration doesn't work yet.
is unhappy so acceleration does not work yet.
If you want to test, instructions will be posted on the wiki,
in the i915 update article (see links).
At this stage, we can only accept patches though, we won't be
At this stage, we can only accept patches, though &mdash; we won't be
able to provide support.</p>
<p>We attended two conferences: XDC 2015 in Toronto and
EuroBSDcon 2015 in Stockholm.
Reports will be posted on the blog.</p>
Reports will be posted on the blog.
</p>
</body>
<help>
<task>See the "Graphics" wiki page for up-to-date
information.</task>
<task>
<p>See the "Graphics" wiki page for up-to-date information.</p>
</task>
</help>
</project>