- Add Q3 report on the status of X.Org
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<p>Thanks to all the reporters for the excellent work! This report
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contains 28 entries and we hope you enjoy reading it.</p>
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contains 29 entries and we hope you enjoy reading it.</p>
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<p>The deadline for submissions covering between October and
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repository access file in July, performed by Gavin Atkinson.</p>
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</body>
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</project>
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<project cat='ports'>
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<title>X.Org on &os;</title>
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<contact>
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<person>
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<name>&os;X11 Team</name>
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<email>x11@FreeBSD.org</email>
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</person>
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</contact>
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<links>
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<url href="https://wiki.freebsd.org/Graphics">X11 Team roadmap (WIP)</url>
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<url href="https://wiki.freebsd.org/Xorg">Ports-related status</url>
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<url href="http://trillian.chruetertee.ch/ports/browser/trunk">Ports-related development repository</url>
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<url href="https://wiki.freebsd.org/AMD_GPU">AMD GPU status</url>
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<url href="https://github.com/dumbbell/freebsd/tree/kms-drm-update-38">DRM generic code update branch on GitHub</url>
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</links>
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<body>
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<p>Mesa 9.1 (libGL and dri) was updated in ports. This includes
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experimental ports for libEGL and libgles2: they are
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dependencies of the experimental ports for Wayland and
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Weston.</p>
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<p>The <tt>radeonkms</tt> driver was committed to &os;
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<tt>head</tt> in the end of August and will be part of
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10.0-RELEASE. It received several fixes since the initial
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commit and now it seems quite stable. However, one missing
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major feature is support for suspend/resume: the GPU almost
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always locks up during resume on the test computer.</p>
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<p>Thanks to the update of Mesa and the update of
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<tt>x11-drivers/xf86-video-ati</tt> to 7.2.0
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in the ports tree, every pieces are in place to allow users to use recent
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AMD video cards (up to HD7000, maybe some HD8000).</p>
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<p>The driver will now only receive bug fixes and focus will move
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on the update of the DRM generic code and the <tt>i915</tt>
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driver.</p>
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<p>The generic DRM code, shared by the <tt>i915kms</tt> and
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<tt>radeonkms</tt> video drivers is quite old now. Work has
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started to update and sync it with that of Linux 3.8. This
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code is available on GitHub.</p>
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<p>The expected benefits are:</p>
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<ul>
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<li>Fixes in the framebuffer code, which would help the future
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deployment of Newcons.</li>
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<li>Preliminary support for minor devices (that is, control vs.
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render nodes).</li>
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<li>Support for <tt>setmaster</tt> and <tt>dropmaster</tt>,
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which allows to run multiple X sessions.</li>
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</ul>
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<p>François Tigeot from DragonFly is also working on updates to
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their DRM code, and the X11 team is planning to share the
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effort.</p>
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<p>An experimental <tt>devd(8)</tt> backend was added to the
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<tt>x11-servers/xorg-server</tt> port. This allows X.Org to use
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<tt>devd(8)</tt> to detect and configure input devices (for
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example, keyboards and mices) dynamically.</p>
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<p>Our current wiki articles are used to describe projects and
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report status. However, they lack some consistency and links
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between them. We started to think about reorganizing them
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to:</p>
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<ul>
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<li>Improve the coordination between the ports and the kernel
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efforts.</li>
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<li>Make the information more accessible.</li>
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</ul>
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<p>Nothing is visible yet on the wiki.</p>
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</body>
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<help>
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<task>Keep tracking Mesa 9.2 or later and <tt>xorg-server</tt>
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1.14. Both are currently blocked, but it is good to keep track of
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what upstream is doing.</task>
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<task>Test and report successes and failures for AMD GPUs.</task>
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<task>Wayland builds now. Work is being done on Weston to see if
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there are any run-time issues. Weston is the reference
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compositor for Wayland.</task>
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<task>Improve the <tt>devd(8)</tt> backend for
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<tt>x11-servers/xorg-server</tt>, so the HAL option can be
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removed completely.</task>
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</help>
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</project>
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</report>
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