From owner-freebsd-x11@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 18 00:30:42 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 67C4AC4C; Wed, 18 Feb 2015 00:30:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from fep12.mx.upcmail.net (fep12.mx.upcmail.net [62.179.121.32]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8BDF9D7C; Wed, 18 Feb 2015 00:30:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from edge03.upcmail.net ([192.168.13.238]) by viefep12-int.chello.at (InterMail vM.8.01.05.13 201-2260-151-135-20130320) with ESMTP id <20150218003033.URRM58958.viefep12-int.chello.at@edge03.upcmail.net>; Wed, 18 Feb 2015 01:30:33 +0100 Received: from [192.168.0.23] ([178.84.134.112]) by edge03.upcmail.net with edge id tcWV1p00X2Rg3Ey01cWV3R; Wed, 18 Feb 2015 01:30:30 +0100 X-SourceIP: 178.84.134.112 Message-ID: <54E3DD1F.2090707@rainbow-runner.nl> Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2015 01:30:23 +0100 From: Koop Mast User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Shawn Webb , freebsd-current@freebsd.org, freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [Call for testers] DRM device-independent code update to Linux 3.8 References: <54E3D2A0.2090903@FreeBSD.org> <45945850.nyTGbOpUO3@shawn-work-laptop> In-Reply-To: <45945850.nyTGbOpUO3@shawn-work-laptop> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: X11 on FreeBSD -- maintaining and support List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2015 00:30:42 -0000 On 18-2-2015 1:21, Shawn Webb wrote: > On Wednesday, February 18, 2015 12:45:36 AM Jean-Sébastien Pédron wrote: >> Hi! >> >> An update to the DRM subsystem, not including the drivers, is ready for >> wider testing! >> >> The patch against HEAD is here: >> https://people.freebsd.org/~dumbbell/graphics/drm-update-38.f.patch >> >> I'm interested in success/failure reports for amd64, powerpc and >> powerpc64 users, for i915 and Radeon GPUs. I already know there is a >> build issue on i386, please wait for the next patch if you are in this case. >> >> The changes brought by this patch are explained in a blog post: >> http://blogs.freebsdish.org/graphics/2015/02/18/testing-the-drm-update/ >> >> This is working well for some Radeon users for more than a year. >> However, it only started to work with i915 a month ago, when the i915 >> refresh was committed. >> >> Try your day-to-day applications, try suspend/resume, try all output >> connectors, try OpenGL stuff, try backlight controls, everything :) >> >> Thank you! > I'll definitely be testing this on my Haswell laptop, running HardenedBSD. I > should have a report back by the end of the week. > > I'm assuming, though, that Haswell won't be working, right? I'll still have to > use the VESA driver. As far as Haswell is concerned, you're mainly looking to > make sure that the patch doesn't actively break anything? > > Thanks, > > Shawn Correct, this is a lets "see if everything still works" CFT. This is just the device independent layer that is getting a update, so no Haswell support. -Koop