- Add 2014Q1 status report for the Graphics stack
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<p>Thanks to all the reporters for the excellent work! This report
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<p>Thanks to all the reporters for the excellent work! This report
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contains 32 entries and we hope you enjoy reading it.</p>
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contains 33 entries and we hope you enjoy reading it.</p>
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<p>The deadline for submissions covering between April and
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<p>The deadline for submissions covering between April and
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June 2014 is July 7th, 2014.</p>
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June 2014 is July 7th, 2014.</p>
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<project cat='ports'>
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<title>The Graphics stack on &os;</title>
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<contact>
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<person>
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<name>&os; Graphics Team</name>
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<email>graphics-team@FreeBSD.org</email>
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<links>
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<url href="https://wiki.freebsd.org/Graphics">Graphics stack roadmap and supported hardware matrix</url>
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<url href="https://wiki.freebsd.org/Graphics/WITH_NEW_XORG">WITH_NEW_XORG status</url>
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<url href="http://trillian.chruetertee.ch/ports/browser/trunk">Ports-related development repository</url>
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<body>
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<p>On the kernel side, the Radeon KMS driver was merged in
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<tt>stable/9</tt> and will be available in &os; 9.3-RELEASE.
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Now both the 9.x and 10.x branches share the same support for
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Intel and AMD GPUs.</p>
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<p>The next big tasks are the updates of the DRM generic code and
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the <tt>i915</tt> driver. Both are making good progress and the
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DRM update should hopefully be ready for wider testing during
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April. An update of the Radeon driver is on the to-do list, but
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nothing is scheduled yet.</p>
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<p>On the ports tree and packages side, the update to Cairo 1.12
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mentioned in the last quarterly report is ready to be committed,
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as people who tested it either reported improvements or no
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regressions. As a reminder, the switch from Cairo 1.10 to 1.12
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causes display artifacts with xf86-video-intel 2.7.1, but fixes
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similar problems with other hardware/driver combinations.
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Furthermore, Cairo 1.12 is required by Pango 1.36.0, GTK+ 3.10
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and Firefox 27.0. A <q>Heads up</q> mail will be posted to the
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<tt>freebsd-x11</tt> mailing-list when this update goes
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live.</p>
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<p>In the graphics stack's ports development tree, new Mesa ports
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are being worked on. Those ports are required to support GLAMOR
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(the GL-based 2D acceleration library used by Radeon HD 7000+
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cards for instance) and OpenCL (using the GPU to perform
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non-graphical calculations). We were able to execute some
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"Hello World" OpenCL programs and play with OpenCL in darktable,
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but there are some compatibility issues between Clover (Mesa's
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libOpenCL implementation) and Clang/<tt>libc++</tt>.</p>
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<p>We are preparing an alternate <tt>pkg(8)</tt> repository with
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packages built with <tt>WITH_NEW_XORG</tt>. The goal is to ease
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the usage of the KMS drivers and move forward with the graphics
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stack updates. The main <tt>pkg(8)</tt> repository will still
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use the default setting (<tt>WITH_NEW_XORG</tt> set on
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<tt>head</tt>, but not on the <tt>stable</tt> branches).</p>
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<p>This will pave the way to <tt>WITH_NEW_XORG</tt> deprecation
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and the removal of the older stack. The current plan is to do
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this after 10.0-RELEASE End-of-Life, scheduled on January 31st,
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2015. By that time, the only supported releases will be
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8.4-RELEASE, 9.3-RELEASE and 10.1-RELEASE. &os; 9.3 and 10.1
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will be fully equipped to work with the newer stack.
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Unfortunately, &os; 8.x misses the required kernel DRM
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infrastructure: supporting X.Org here cripples progress on the
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graphics stack and, once <tt>WITH_NEW_XORG</tt> is gone, we will
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not support 8.x as a desktop anymore. Therefore, please upgrade
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to 9.3 or 10.1 when they are available.</p>
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</body>
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<help>
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<task>See the <q>Graphics</q> and <q>WITH_NEW_XORG</q> wiki pages
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for up-to-date information.</task>
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</help>
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</project>
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</report>
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