From owner-freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Wed Mar 22 17:42:14 2017 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-x11@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 69DAED18C94 for ; Wed, 22 Mar 2017 17:42:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bob@rancor.immure.com) Received: from rancor.immure.com (108-84-10-9.lightspeed.austtx.sbcglobal.net [108.84.10.9]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "darth.immure.com", Issuer "darth.immure.com" (not verified)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 1683414A5 for ; Wed, 22 Mar 2017 17:42:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bob@rancor.immure.com) Received: from rancor.immure.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by rancor.immure.com (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTPS id v2MHgBvZ082879 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=NO); Wed, 22 Mar 2017 12:42:11 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from bob@rancor.immure.com) Received: (from bob@localhost) by rancor.immure.com (8.15.2/8.15.2/Submit) id v2MHgBK9082878; Wed, 22 Mar 2017 12:42:11 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from bob) Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2017 12:42:11 -0500 From: Bob Willcox To: Theron Cc: Thomas Mueller , freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Status of Intel Broadwell GPU Support?? Message-ID: <20170322174211.GB82318@rancor.immure.com> Reply-To: Bob Willcox References: <20170321182231.GG77624@rancor.immure.com> <25c5ecee-b617-a55b-c8f9-cf041b7ecf92@nomadlogic.org> <20170321201843.GH77624@rancor.immure.com> <10d5602e-8fe5-1d2c-1e07-5ca2f62ebfe0@nomadlogic.org> <20170321222823.GA79219@rancor.immure.com> <79.B5.25473.52E32D85@dnvrco-omsmta03> <20170322125003.GL3359@rancor.immure.com> <5d9d18c0-e73a-3f08-3ec5-7ad0e4d96ca1@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <5d9d18c0-e73a-3f08-3ec5-7ad0e4d96ca1@gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.8.0 (2017-02-23) X-BeenThere: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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, 22 Mar 2017 17:42:14 -0000 On Wed, Mar 22, 2017 at 01:20:37PM -0400, Theron wrote: > On 03/22/17 08:50, Bob Willcox wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 22, 2017 at 09:02:27AM +0000, Thomas Mueller wrote: > >>> Hooray!! My system is up and running the FreeBSDDesktop/freebsd-base-graphics version! > >>> The download, build, & install was mostly uneventful. Thanks again for your help! > >>> Bob > >>> Bob Willcox > >> Did you use freebsd-base-graphics for buildworld and buildkernel, or did you use the normal /usr/src for buildworld and freebsd-base-graphics for the kernel? > >> > >> > >> Tom > >> > > I followed the instructions here: > > > > https://github.com/FreeBSDDesktop/freebsd-base-graphics > > > > and used freebsd-base-graphics for both buildword and buildkernel. I'm not too > > clear on just what that means for any future updates, though. I have been > > hoping for the past year or more that the patches/changes included in > > freebsd-base-graphics would get integrated into the base. I really don't know > > if that's happened or planned to be done. Been kinda frustrating. > > > > Bob > > > > I think the problem with upstreaming is that > FreeBSDDesktop/freebsd-base-graphics uses elements of the Linux source > tree organization, namely the drivers/gpu and Documentation/gpu > directories, which do not fit in the normal FreeBSD source tree. As far > as I can tell the FreeBSDDesktop team did this to minimize differences > between Linux and FreeBSD gpu sources. Maybe these directories should > be put elsewhere and just the makefiles modified to resolve the > differences? Or have the source consist of the files with unmodified > Linux paths along side a patch file correcting the differences, > similarly to ports? Given that most technical issues are out of the way > and that there is a high user demand for this support, it seems to be > time for the developers to revisit this issue. > > Theron Must say that I agree. FreeBSD will continue to lose mindshare if this isn't dealt with somehow. It's quite frustrating in this day and age to have an OS that can only support tty/console user access. Bob -- Bob Willcox | You're dead, Jim. bob@immure.com | -- McCoy, "The Tholian Web", stardate unknown Austin, TX |