Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2016 21:05:10 +0000 (UTC) From: Warren Block <wblock@FreeBSD.org> To: doc-committers@freebsd.org, svn-doc-all@freebsd.org, svn-doc-head@freebsd.org Subject: svn commit: r48577 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status Message-ID: <201604122105.u3CL5AZA043887@repo.freebsd.org>
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Author: wblock Date: Tue Apr 12 21:05:09 2016 New Revision: 48577 URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/48577 Log: Add report from the Graphics team (submitted by Jean-Sébastien Pédron <dumbbell@FreeBSD.org>). Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2016-01-2016-03.xml Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2016-01-2016-03.xml ============================================================================== --- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2016-01-2016-03.xml Tue Apr 12 20:59:43 2016 (r48576) +++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2016-01-2016-03.xml Tue Apr 12 21:05:09 2016 (r48577) @@ -277,4 +277,62 @@ </task> </help> </project> + + <project cat="proj"> + <title>The Graphics stack on FreeBSD</title> + + <contact> + <person> + <name> + <common>FreeBSD Graphics team</common> + </name> + <email>freebsd-x11@FreeBSD.org</email> + </person> + </contact> + + <links> + <url href="https://wiki.freebsd.org/Graphics">Graphics stack roadmap and supported hardware matrix</url> + <url href="https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-ports-graphics">Ports development tree on GitHub</url> + <url href="https://fosdem.org/2016/schedule/event/freebsd_graphic_stack/">FreeBSD Graphics Team at FOSDEM 2016</url> + <url href="https://wiki.freebsd.org/SummerOfCodeIdeas#Devices_management:_link_.2Fdev_entries_to_sysctl_nodes">GSoC 2016: link /dev entries to sysctl nodes</url> + <url href="https://wiki.freebsd.org/SummerOfCodeIdeas#Devices_management:_redesign_and_rewrite_libdevq">GSoC 2016: redesign libdevq</url> + </links> + + <body> + <p>The major news for this quarter is the update of the i915 + driver in the kernel! The driver now matches Linux 3.8.13, so + it includes initial Haswell support. Linux 3.8 is already + three years old, but work continues to upgrade DRM further. + In particular, the move to <tt>linuxkpi</tt> was started.</p> + + <p>In the Ports tree, Mesa was updated to 11.1.2. The next minor + release, 11.2.0, is ready for testing in our development tree. + We also updated libclc to 0.2.0.20151006, a library used by + Mesa to provide OpenCL support.</p> + + <p>We attended FOSDEM 2016 in Brussels. Jean-S??bastien P??dron + gave a talk to explain the work of the graphics team and show + how people can contribute. It was well received and the + presentation was followed by interesting discussions. FOSDEM + was also a nice occasion to meet and talk again to the nice + "upstream" developers of the graphics stack.</p> + + <p>For the first year, we added two ideas for GSoC 2016: one for + a kernel task, one to redesign libdevq. Six students + submitted a proposal for those two ideas, that was unexpected! + We now need to decide which one we want to mentor and the + choice is difficult.</p> + + <p>The blog is still down. We started to work on a replacement. + We will probably go with a static generated website hosted on + GitHub pages.</p> + </body> + + <help> + <task> + <p>See the "Graphics" wiki page for up-to-date + information.</p> + </task> + </help> + </project> </report>
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