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On 03/30/2015 05:46, Nicolas Martyanoff wrote:
> On 2015-03-30 11:39, Johannes Dieterich wrote:
>> On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 11:33 AM, Nicolas Martyanoff <khaelin@gmail.com> 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.
> 

This might help you too:
https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/xorg-vesa-driver-massive-speedup-using-mtrr-write-combine.46723/

I don't have new enough hardware to try it out myself yet.