From cce9d9a2e6c280bc25a7c92c470d8badbfd71843 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dru Lavigne Date: Sat, 9 Jul 2016 17:04:34 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Incorporate patch to Graphics update. Submitted by: kwm Sponsored by: iXsystems --- .../news/status/report-2016-04-2016-06.xml | 42 +++++++++++++++---- 1 file changed, 33 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) diff --git a/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2016-04-2016-06.xml b/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2016-04-2016-06.xml index 5fc1b4e37e..840f5af667 100644 --- a/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2016-04-2016-06.xml +++ b/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2016-04-2016-06.xml @@ -1033,9 +1033,14 @@ - Graphics Update + The Graphics Stack on &os; + + &os; Graphics team + freebsd-x11@FreeBSD.org + + Matthew @@ -1047,9 +1052,27 @@ GitHub Repository + Graphics Stack Roadmap and Supported Hardware Matrix + Ports Development Repository + DRM 4.6 Development Repository + GSoC 2016: link /dev entries to sysctl nodes + GSoC 2016: Redesign libdevq + Graphics Team Blog +

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.

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The GSoC project about being able to connect a /dev + entry to sysctl nodes is making progress. After some + fruitful discussons on the freebsd-arch@ mailing-list, + Kiloreux finished the design and is now implementing the + solution. The GSoC project on libdevq was + abandoned.

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All Intel GPUs up to and including the unreleased Kaby Lake are supported. The xf86-video-intel driver will be updated soon. Updating this driver requires updating @@ -1070,9 +1093,9 @@ processors prior to Sandy Bridge (pre-2010). -

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;.

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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;.

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 @@ -1082,11 +1105,12 @@ fails in drm/ttm, so there may in fact be issues in the underlying 3D support.

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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 libdrm. Koop Mast is - actively working on this and should have it fixed soon.

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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 libdrm. Koop + Mast is actively working on this and should have it fixed + soon.

None of the required patches to src/sys were committed in time for &os; 11. Although the plan is to