Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2014 22:16:46 +0000 (UTC) From: Glen Barber <gjb@FreeBSD.org> To: doc-committers@freebsd.org, svn-doc-all@freebsd.org, svn-doc-head@freebsd.org Subject: svn commit: r45296 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status Message-ID: <201407142216.s6EMGk4g029648@svn.freebsd.org>
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Author: gjb Date: Mon Jul 14 22:16:46 2014 New Revision: 45296 URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/45296 Log: Add the X11 status report Submitted by: x11@ Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-04-2014-06.xml Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-04-2014-06.xml ============================================================================== --- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-04-2014-06.xml Mon Jul 14 22:09:25 2014 (r45295) +++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-04-2014-06.xml Mon Jul 14 22:16:46 2014 (r45296) @@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ ?> <p>Thanks to all the reporters for the excellent work! This - report contains 14 entries and we hope you enjoy reading it.</p> + report contains 15 entries and we hope you enjoy reading it.</p> <p>The deadline for submissions covering between July and September 2014 is October 7th, 2014.</p> @@ -1187,4 +1187,61 @@ github</url>.</task> </help> </project> + + <project cat="ports"> + <title>The Graphics stack on &os;</title> + + <contact> + <person> + <name> + <common>&os; Graphics team</common> + </name> + <email>x11@FreeBSD.org</email> + </person> + </contact> + + <links> + <url href="https://wiki.freebsd.org/Graphics">Graphics stack + roadmap and supported hardware matrix</url> + <url + href="http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-announce/2014-July/001570.html">WITH_NEW_XORG + repository announce</url> + <url + href="http://trillian.chruetertee.ch/ports/browser/trunk">Ports-related + development repository</url> + </links> + + <body> + <p>We were generally short on time this quarter. We made less + progress than expected on all fronts.</p> + + <p>The alternate pkg(8) repository, built with WITH_NEW_XORG, is + now available. This alleviates the need for users to rebuild + their ports with WITH_NEW_XORG. See the announcement, linked + above for further information.</p> + + <p>Thanks to a contribution from Jan Kokemüller, Radeon 32bit + ioctls are now working on 64bit hosts. This was tested + successfully with Wine and StarCraft II on &os; 9.x and 11. + This required modifications to emulators/i386-wine-devel so + that it works with WITH_NEW_XORG, and the creation of a new + port, libtxc_dxtn, to support texture compression required by + StarCraft II. We haven't yet had the time to polish + everything, so this still requires manual steps.</p> + + <p>The DRM generic code update is ready, but it breaks the + current i915 driver. Therefore, the i915 driver must be + updated before anything is committed.</p> + + <p>Compared to last status report, OpenCL test programs are + running fine now, thanks to upgrades and fixes to libc++ and + Clang. Relevant ports are still not ready to hit the ports + tree unfortunately.</p> + </body> + + <help> + <task>See the "Graphics" wiki page for up-to-date + information.</task> + </help> + </project> </report>
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