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Date:      Sat, 30 Apr 2016 22:02:05 -0400
From:      Allan Jude <allanjude@freebsd.org>
To:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Intel i7-6700T aka Skylake Support
Message-ID:  <5725639D.8080709@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <3cb2c0e3-a263-ff9a-2003-85d01a95e41f@nomadlogic.org>
References:  <3cb2c0e3-a263-ff9a-2003-85d01a95e41f@nomadlogic.org>

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On 2016-04-30 19:45, Pete Wright wrote:
> I recently acquired a Lenovo M900 Tiny desktop system which comes with
> an intel i7-6700T Skylate CPU and Intel HD 530 graphics processor.  I am
> successfully running 11-CURRENT via EFI but have three devices which I
> am unable to fully utilize on current as of r298768:
> 
> 1) On board Wireless reported as 'Intel Wireless 8260'
> 
> 2) Audio reported as 'Sunrise Point-H HD Audio'
> 
> 3) Accelerated graphics.
> 

I am not similarly afflicted, my laptop is Ivybridge so the i915 we have
works. However, I have heard of a reasonably large number of people
having success using xf86-video-scfb in combination with EFI to get
reasonable graphics performance, until the i915 updates catch up to
their hardware:

https://wiki.freebsd.org/Graphics/SCFB

> I am using a USB dongle to workaround the wireless issue, and am running
> X using the VGA driver I believe.  The i915 driver does seem to work,
> but I do not believe the GPU is enabled by Xorg.  I am unable to get any
> audio out of the intel HD Audio card.
> 
> If there is anything I can do as a user on my end to help get this
> hardware fully supported I'd be keen to help.  It's a nice desktop
> system which I'm hoping to use for the foreseeable future as my main
> workstation.
> 
> The dmesg is available here:
> http://dmesgd.nycbug.org/index.cgi?do=view&id=2961
> 


-- 
Allan Jude



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