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On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 8:24 AM, Gary Jennejohn
<gljennjohn@googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 16 Jul 2010 19:53:20 +0100
> spellberg_robert <emailrob@emailrob.com> wrote:
>
>> am i to understand that "features" have been removed from the kernel ?
>>
>
> No, features have been added to the Linux kernel (which are not in
> FreeBSD) and Intel targets Linux, not FreeBSD.

Gary is right, FreeBSD kernel lacks KMS and GEM.

Speaking about other issues, I'm really not intel driver developer,
I'm just unhappy user of 945GM which is semi broken with current
driver/Mesa 3D/Xorg combination from ports, for example "xrandr -x"
will panic system.

For more information you can contact x11 mailing list directly:
http://www.x.org/wiki/XorgMailingLists