From owner-freebsd-x11@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 26 21:54:35 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 52B3D106566C; Thu, 26 Nov 2009 21:54:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from vehemens@verizon.net) Received: from vms173005pub.verizon.net (vms173005pub.verizon.net [206.46.173.5]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3214D8FC15; Thu, 26 Nov 2009 21:54:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from sam ([71.243.215.110]) by vms173005.mailsrvcs.net (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 6.3-7.04 (built Sep 26 2008; 32bit)) with ESMTPA id <0KTQ002UQKUK2LIR@vms173005.mailsrvcs.net>; Thu, 26 Nov 2009 15:54:34 -0600 (CST) From: vehemens To: Robert Noland Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2009 14:55:40 -0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.10 References: <200911260234.44399.vehemens@verizon.net> <1259250314.2315.10.camel@balrog.2hip.net> In-reply-to: <1259250314.2315.10.camel@balrog.2hip.net> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Content-disposition: inline Message-id: <200911261455.40399.vehemens@verizon.net> Cc: Mark Linimon , freebsd-x11@freebsd.org, "b. f." Subject: Re: xorg ports roadmap? X-BeenThere: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: X11 on FreeBSD -- maintaining and support List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2009 21:54:35 -0000 On Thursday 26 November 2009 07:45:14 Robert Noland wrote: > On Thu, 2009-11-26 at 02:34 -0800, vehemens wrote: > > On Wednesday 25 November 2009 15:14:30 Mark Linimon wrote: > > > On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 10:20:22AM -0800, vehemens wrote: > > > > I don't belive that there any plans, which is why BSD will be stuck > > > > using an dated x11 release. > > > > > > portmgr had asked that no large changes be committed during the 8.0 QA > > > process. I can't think of too many other changes that would be "larger > > > changes". > > > > So could you enlighten us with the plan and schedule for updating the x11 > > ports once the freeze is lifted? > > Whatever plan there is, is mine... I do intend to make the updates to at > least 7.5 base set before too much longer, however as I have stated > there are issues for various chips that need resolving. I don't have a > solution that I am happy with for either intel or nouveau right now, > radeon will just work. As was also mentiioned... I get lots of grief > when updates are made, which doesn't help my motivation for the massive > amount of work required to get this done. The effort requires not only > updating the main chip drivers, but lots of obscure drivers that have 3 > users, as well as a full pointyhat run and generally fixing lots of > non-xorg ports with the new infrastructure. If your having so many problems with these updates, why not just split ports into current and stable branches?