Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2013 06:48:48 +0000 (UTC) From: Gabor Pali <pgj@FreeBSD.org> To: doc-committers@freebsd.org, svn-doc-all@freebsd.org, svn-doc-head@freebsd.org Subject: svn commit: r42123 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status Message-ID: <201307030648.r636mmR0059298@svn.freebsd.org>
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Author: pgj Date: Wed Jul 3 06:48:48 2013 New Revision: 42123 URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/42123 Log: - Add a Q2 entry on the AMD GPU KMS work Submitted by: dumbbell Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2013-04-2013-06.xml Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2013-04-2013-06.xml ============================================================================== --- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2013-04-2013-06.xml Wed Jul 3 06:21:44 2013 (r42122) +++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2013-04-2013-06.xml Wed Jul 3 06:48:48 2013 (r42123) @@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ <!-- XXX: keep updating the number of entries --> <p>Thanks to all the reporters for the excellent work! This report - contains 9 entries and we hope you enjoy reading it.</p> + contains 10 entries and we hope you enjoy reading it.</p> <!-- XXX: set date for the next set of submissions --> <p>The deadline for submissions covering between July and September 2013 @@ -459,4 +459,68 @@ <task>Merge back changes to <tt>head</tt>.</task> </help> </project> + + <project cat='kern'> + <title>AMD GPU Kernel Mode-setting Support</title> + + <contact> + <person> + <name> + <given>Jean-Sébastien</given> + <common>Pédron</common> + </name> + <email>dumbbell@FreeBSD.org</email> + </person> + + <person> + <name> + <given>Konstantin</given> + <common>Belousov</common> + </name> + <email>kib@FreeBSD.org</email> + </person> + </contact> + + <links> + <url href="https://wiki.freebsd.org/AMD_GPU">Project status on the + wiki</url> + </links> + + <body> + <p>Due to non-&os;-related activities from April to end of June, + the project progressed slowly:</p> + + <ul> + <li>Some important problems in TTM were fixed and several others + are being worked out. Applications affected by these bugs are + non-linear video editing software (which do not use Xv to + preview the video) or "screen" of VirtualBox, for + instance.</li> + + <li>Regarding the locking issue with OpenGL, no work has been + done yet. <tt>glxgears</tt> works but some modern desktop + environments or WebGL demos hang. Once TTM bugs described + above are fixed, this is the next target.</li> + + <li>Patches to Mesa to make it build out-of-the-box were + submitted upstream. As of writing, some were committed but + not all of them. Additionally, thanks to Jonathan Gray (of + OpenBSD) Mesa should hopefully work on &os;, OpenBSD and other + BSD flavors without additional patches.</li> + </ul> + + <p>Several users tested the driver. Andriy Gapon, Jonathan + Gray, and Mark Kettenis (of OpenBSD) submitted patches. kyzh + kindly donated several discrete cards from different series. + A big thanks to all those contributors!</p> + + <p>The driver is still not stable enough for a wider call for + testers.</p> + </body> + + <help> + <task>Write instructions for the wiki to explain how to test the + driver.</task> + </help> + </project> </report>
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