Date: Sun, 22 Nov 2009 01:11:44 -0800 From: vehemens <vehemens@verizon.net> To: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Cc: "b. f." <bf1783@googlemail.com> Subject: Re: xorg ports roadmap? Message-ID: <200911220111.44806.vehemens@verizon.net>
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On Tuesday 10 November 2009 09:09:04 Robert Noland wrote: > On Tue, 2009-11-10 at 00:18 +0000, b. f. wrote: > > What plans are there, if any, for an xorg update in Ports after 8.0 is > > released? What versions of the key xorg ports will be included in > > such an update? Are there any patches available, or a repository with > > public access, as in the past? Is rnoland@ the only person working on > > this? > > AFAIK, yes... I'm intending to update to at least basic set of 7.5 > ports. There are some issues that need to be resolved though. We can't > update the Intel driver without losing drm support and the current > driver doesn't build against Xserver 1.7.1. This is probably not a > major patch-up job, but I haven't looked at it in detail yet. The other > main issue is that updating libdrm will break nouveau support and I > haven't decided what to do about that yet. > > I'm happy to have help as my TODO list is quite lengthy and so it tends > to be more a question of what I feel like working on on any given day. > We just need to figure out how to effectively coordinate multiple > peoples efforts. > > I have many of the ports updated in my cvs tree, but a full review of > currently shipping versions needs to be done, as well as resolve the > issues mentioned above. Given the above tasks, when do you expect the updates to make it to the ports tree?
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