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Incorporate patch to Graphics update.

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Dru Lavigne 2016-07-09 17:04:34 +00:00
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</project>
<project cat='proj'>
<title>Graphics Update</title>
<title>The Graphics Stack on &os;</title>
<contact>
<person>
<name>&os; Graphics team</name>
<email>freebsd-x11@FreeBSD.org</email>
</person>
<person>
<name>
<given>Matthew</given>
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<links>
<url href="https://github.com/FreeBSDDesktop/freebsd-base-graphics">GitHub Repository</url>
<url href="http://wiki.FreeBSD.org/Graphics">Graphics Stack Roadmap and Supported Hardware Matrix</url>
<url href="https://github.com/FreeBSD/freebsd-ports-graphics">Ports Development Repository</url>
<url href="https://github.com/FreeBSDDesktop/freebsd-base-graphics/tree/drm-next-4.6">DRM 4.6 Development Repository</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/SummerOfCode2016/RethinkLibdevq">GSoC 2016: Redesign libdevq </url>
<url href="http://planet.freebsd.org/graphics">Graphics Team Blog</url>
</links>
<body>
<p>In the Ports tree, Mesa was updated to 11.2.2. The next
major release, 12.0.0 release candidate 4, is ready for
testing in our development tree.</p>
<p>The GSoC project about being able to connect a <tt>/dev</tt>
entry to <tt>sysctl</tt> nodes is making progress. After some
fruitful discussons on the <a
href="https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-arch">freebsd-arch@ mailing-list</a>,
Kiloreux finished the design and is now implementing the
solution. The GSoC project on <tt>libdevq</tt> was
abandoned.</p>
<p>All Intel GPUs up to and including the unreleased Kaby Lake
are supported. The <tt>xf86-video-intel</tt> driver will be
updated soon. Updating this driver requires updating
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processors prior to Sandy Bridge (pre-2010).</li>
</ul>
<p>I am hoping to be able to diagnose the first two issues,
along with others, by updating Linux support to the point
where the Intel GPU Tools work on &os;.</p>
<p>Matt Macy is hoping to be able to diagnose the first two
issues, along with others, by updating Linux support to the
point where the Intel GPU Tools work on &os;.</p>
<p>The Radeon AMD/ATI has been updated to GCN 1.0. This has
only been tested on an R7 240. 2D-accelerated X works. Due
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fails in <tt>drm/ttm</tt>, so there may in fact be issues in
the underlying 3D support.</p>
<p>The AMD/ATI driver has been updated to GCN 1.1 and higher.
The KMS driver loads and attaches on discrete GPUs, though
problems still exist on the Carizzo APU. X will not start due
to unimplemented functions in <tt>libdrm</tt>. Koop Mast is
actively working on this and should have it fixed soon.</p>
<p>The Amdgpu AMD/ATI driver has been updated to GCN 1.1 and
higher. The KMS driver loads and attaches on discrete GPUs,
though problems still exist on the Carizzo APU. X will not
start due to unimplemented functions in <tt>libdrm</tt>. Koop
Mast is actively working on this and should have it fixed
soon.</p>
<p>None of the required patches to <tt>src/sys</tt> were
committed in time for &os; 11. Although the plan is to