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</help>
</project>
<project cat="ports">
<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="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
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.
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
lang/beignet for supported Intel cards (currently only
Ivybridge).
Thanks go to Johannes Dieterich, O. Hartman, 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.
It should be committed shortly.</p>
<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.
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
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>
</body>
<help>
<task>See the "Graphics" wiki page for up-to-date
information.</task>
</help>
</project>
<project cat='misc'>
<title>The FreeBSD Foundation</title>