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Date:      Wed, 25 Mar 2015 00:25:46 +0100
From:      =?UTF-8?B?SmVhbi1Tw6liYXN0aWVuIFDDqWRyb24=?= <dumbbell@FreeBSD.org>
To:        freebsd-x11@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   [Call for testers] The i915 kernel driver as a port on FreeBSD 9.3
Message-ID:  <5511F27A.4010400@FreeBSD.org>

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Hi!

FreeBSD 9.3's i915 kernel driver is missing hardware context support.
This means we are stuck with Mesa 9.1 and xserver 1.14 on this version.

We are experimenting with providing the i915 kernel driver with hardware
context as a port:
http://blogs.freebsdish.org/graphics/2015/03/18/mesa-10-x-and-i915-on-fre=
ebsd-9-x/

The article includes a patch and instructions to test it.

Could i915 and Radeon users running FreeBSD 9.3 on their desktop please
test this?

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Jean-S=C3=A9bastien P=C3=A9dron


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