Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2012 23:02:15 -0500 From: Brandon Gooch <jamesbrandongooch@gmail.com> To: x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [CFT] Xorg 7.7 ready for testing! Message-ID: <CALBk6yJ2Tv=o0JyWjoWgW3E8o5ZFWXN9Y4TiJ41%2BMLx2=Uwujw@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20120607203753.2466c63a.miwi@FreeBSD.org> References: <20120607203753.2466c63a.miwi@FreeBSD.org>
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On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 7:37 AM, Martin Wilke <miwi@freebsd.org> wrote: > Hi Fans, > > The FreeBSD Xorg Team is pleased to announce Xorg 7.7 Release. We are > very happy to be able to Call for testing shortly after the Xorg team > annouced 7.7 release. This CFT is also open for discussion on how we > should move forward with xorg release as we are facing some issues and > we would like to ask for your opinion. Right now we have 2 existing > xorg versions in our Ports Tree. The situation is quite bad due to our > poor graphic card support. That means we do not have much choice but to > take it as how it is now. But with regards to mesa support, we have to > face some new challanges. > > With the new mesa 8.0 release, accelerated support for a number of > older graphic cards was dropped. At the moment we are not sure how to > deal with that.We are thinking of just replacing mesa 7.11 with 8.0 or > making a new flag like WITH_MESA=3D 7.11.2 / 8.0 in combination with > WITH_NEW_XORG, and let the mesa 7.6.1 set as default together with the > old xorg version. Obviosly the latter option make the already complex > situation more complex. The problem is, users, especially =A0the new ones > can easily get confused with it. Another issue is, the packages.We > can't deliver a package set with the new Xorg releases. This means > users with new hardware will have to compile everything by themselves. > Though I'm totally fine with compiling, not everyone has the CPU power > to compile everything. What I'm trying to say is, I would love to see > the newer xorg released as the default version, but i know this will > break a lot of old hardware. The thing is, when we want to try to > become a Modern Operating System, I dont see any other way to make the > new xorg as default but to give Users the chance to compile the old > xorg with a flag like WITH_OLD_XORG. > > Some notes regarding KMS support: > KMS Support has been completely migrated to FreeBSD 10. The MFC to 9 > will come soon, that means so long its not MFC'd to 9-Stable, users > need to get the latest patch from our x11 mailing list. > > This testing includes > * libdrm 2.4.34 (including KMS support) > * mesa 8.0.3 > * full Xorg 7.7 release Change log > =A0http://www.x.org/releases/X11R7.7/changelog.html > > Checkout Xorg Development Repo: > You will need to install devel/subversion in order to checkout the xorg > repo. Next, you will need to add WITH_NEW_XORG=3Dyes in > your /etc/make.conf if you want to try out the new Xorg and mesa. Note > that if you are not qualified for the KMS patch, you shouldn=92t use > WITH_NEW_XORG=3Dyes because the old intel driver doesn=92t build with the > new X server. If you are qualified, you should also set WITH_KMS=3Dyes > in /etc/make.conf. Nvidia and ATI users should set WITH_NEW_XORG=3Dyes. > > svn co https://trillian.chruetertee.ch/svn/ports/trunk > > A small merge script to merge the svn checkout into the real portstree > can be found here: > > http://people.freebsd.org/~miwi/xorg/xorgmerge > > The script is a modified version of the old kdemerge script. Please set > the KDEDIR variable to the path of your X.org ports. After merging, run > one of the following command, depending on which tool you use to manage > your installed packages. > > portupgrade -af \* > portmaster -a > > > After installing these, you will have to rebuild all xf86-* ports. We > will bump all releated ports during the commit to the ports tree. > > Roadmap: > Our current plan is to let the CFT running for a while, and see what > the outcome of the discussion above is. We hope to get a lot of > feedback to solve as many problems as possible. Also we are working on > the libglut to freeglut migration, this will definitely complete before > we import Xorg 7.7. So we still have enough time. =A0We are looking > forward for your feedback. > > - miwi on behalf of the FreeBSD X11 Team > > PS: Please reply only to x11@ thanks. > I just tried building on 10-CURRENT with clang, and ran into the issue with the code in nouveau_array.c described here: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports/2012-April/074582.html Are there plans to fix this for this round of testing? I generated the patch as per the follow-up message here: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports/2012-April/074583.html I'm retrying the build now, and if all goes well, I'll continue testing. Thanks for the all of your hard work on Xorg! -Brandon
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