From owner-freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Thu Mar 23 16:21:32 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 6FC7FD1A141 for ; Thu, 23 Mar 2017 16:21:32 +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 21F0916E8 for ; Thu, 23 Mar 2017 16:21:31 +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 v2NGLUsD088340 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=NO); Thu, 23 Mar 2017 11:21:30 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from bob@rancor.immure.com) Received: (from bob@localhost) by rancor.immure.com (8.15.2/8.15.2/Submit) id v2NGLTGc088339; Thu, 23 Mar 2017 11:21:29 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from bob) Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2017 11:21:29 -0500 From: Bob Willcox To: Pete Wright Cc: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Status of Intel Broadwell GPU Support?? Message-ID: <20170323162129.GD87700@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> <5F.72.29375.2FB73D85@dnvrco-omsmta02> <5ac76e08-6a12-76b5-0b67-7f69389eec8e@nomadlogic.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <5ac76e08-6a12-76b5-0b67-7f69389eec8e@nomadlogic.org> 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: Thu, 23 Mar 2017 16:21:32 -0000 On Thu, Mar 23, 2017 at 08:00:49AM -0700, Pete Wright wrote: > > > On 03/23/17 00:38, Thomas Mueller wrote: > >> 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 look further and see that you need a slightly different ports tree: > > > > https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-ports-graphics.git > > > > but I think you need to put -b xserver-next at the end of the git command (and git at the beginning). > > > > Then such a FreeBSD installation would have to be separate from an installation that uses regular src tree and ports tree, lest the ABI and shared libraries be out of sync. > > Hrm, I think the wiki is out of date, or unclear, in regards to the > separate ports tree. As of the latest Xorg updates which brought us up > to v1.18 this is not necessarily needed. i am running drm-next > kernel+world and installing all packages off of the freebsd.org pkg > repository with success. this ports tree should still work, but is no > longer a hard requirement - i'll block out some time to update the wiki > today. > > -pete That is really good news to me then. I would really like to not have to mess with this system anymore for awhile. :) Bob -- Bob Willcox | You're dead, Jim. bob@immure.com | -- McCoy, "The Tholian Web", stardate unknown Austin, TX |