Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2014 20:55:04 +0100 From: Andrea Venturoli <ml@netfence.it> To: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NEW_XORG and vt(4) in stable branches Message-ID: <52FBD198.20102@netfence.it> In-Reply-To: <201402121443.44313.jhb@freebsd.org> References: <201402121443.44313.jhb@freebsd.org>
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On 02/12/14 20:43, John Baldwin wrote: > Our current feeling is that we would like to not enable NEW_XORG by default > for the packages for a given src branch until vt(4) has been merged to that > branch. We do not think that vt(4) needs to be enabled by default in the > branch; just having it available as an option as it is in HEAD would be > sufficient. Our understanding is that merging vt(4) in its current-ish form > to stable/10 and stable/9 is quite feasible and not a major nightmare. We do > not feel that it is necessary to merge to stable/8 as drm2 isn't merged to > stable/8 either. (Our assumption is that stable/8 will just stay with the old > Xorg and the ports tree will have to support old Xorg until 8.x support in > ports is EOL'd.) > > Does that sound sensible? To me absolutely; I have a couple of 9/10 boxes I'd think(*) about upgrading as soon as KMS+VT comes out of head. (*) Notice "think": I've still not read all the limitaions, pros and cons, etc. Maybe I'll wait for a couple of success reports from others :) Just my 2c. bye & Thanks av.
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