From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 30 09:46:14 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 750A4251 for ; Mon, 30 Mar 2015 09:46:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wi0-x234.google.com (mail-wi0-x234.google.com [IPv6:2a00:1450:400c:c05::234]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 051C2289 for ; Mon, 30 Mar 2015 09:46:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wiaa2 with SMTP id a2so120711043wia.0 for ; Mon, 30 Mar 2015 02:46:12 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:references:mime-version :content-type:content-disposition:content-transfer-encoding :in-reply-to:user-agent; bh=U5YpvxXh8wLfoSSHWRq8tA93TBxMOuFZ3zggPQaIALI=; b=isRuhsQJrinL5pgz2q5Xl2HIJ6XOsc3zCyy+/pEc/UxBBArGIH60azeOzHibTbJHDn 4ExV2nqJXr48HLfd4QhvMPnPwt3aPSuH7hGyYva65NXlovj3paMxsReUBs9LPmkxV+19 Mzn8l6XJW68AQg+ZKsQdshIwVLL2fXuWDBC3my3uElvMFS8jxzqy0Yj78y2lAPFv3sBo ss2uF8ZRWIpgmo+3y3xs+w1DP5mqsEAxrUTRlvoHR59bU8e6x8lHgni4W1YRT3p6uEQR Wx4p+f/VVowlW0zMQN60Th+DTgWXbVuPR+IvsY9eCeQ5oWI3aPorpceZKadIHSpx2ARV r2Eg== X-Received: by 10.194.81.1 with SMTP id v1mr59506410wjx.50.1427708772396; Mon, 30 Mar 2015 02:46:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from valhala.home ([78.193.58.122]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id cf12sm14950884wjb.10.2015.03.30.02.46.11 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Mon, 30 Mar 2015 02:46:11 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2015 11:46:10 +0200 From: Nicolas Martyanoff To: Johannes Dieterich Subject: Re: Intel HD 5500 driver port Message-ID: <20150330094610.GB3937@valhala.home> References: <20150330093352.GA3937@valhala.home> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2015 09:46:14 -0000 On 2015-03-30 11:39, Johannes Dieterich wrote: > On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 11:33 AM, Nicolas Martyanoff wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have trouble finding info about support for the Intel HD 5500 graphic chip > > (used on broadwell platforms such as new Thinkpads) on FreeBSD. On Linux, it > > seems to be supported by the Intel driver Since June 2014¹. > > > > Is there a port in progress, or some development being done ? > neither Haswell nor Broadwell iGPUs are currently supported by any > version of FreeBSD with the intel driver. However, work is underway by > some developers (kib@, dumbbell@) to make this happen. Please see > https://wiki.freebsd.org/Graphics for up-to-date status/information of > all things graphics. > > Depending on your requirements, you can use the vesa driver with > software rendering in the mean time. Thank you for the information. I'll try software rendering when I get the laptop. -- Nicolas Martyanoff http://wandrian.net khaelin@gmail.com