Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2011 16:16:13 +0300 From: Kostik Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com> To: x11@freebsd.org Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Kernel Intel GPU driver and ports Message-ID: <20110723131613.GF17489@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua>
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--znFrcFTOc9PDN8kJ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Hello, after the initial code drop, I have fixed some amount of bugs and got several positive reports from users. If KMS worked on your machine, you probably can use the driver with 3D acceleration on regular basis. As I see the state of the effort right now, there are two most impeding issues that prevent wider testing of the driver. First is the non-working display port code, causing failure in KMS for some configurations. This will be eventually fixed. Second is the very laborous procedure to install the required usermode components. The http://wiki.freebsd.org/Intel_GPU lists the requirements. The port provided ddx and mesa cannot be simply updated, because kernel driver is not yet in src/ head, not mentioning the stable branches. Also, new libdrm and mesa may be non-functional on our old non-intel DRI drivers. Additional quirk is that in-tree Xorg server is old, and git head for intel ddx cannot be built against old Xorg API. For wide testing, the easy way to install fresh usermode graphics stack is neededi, while still allowing the most installations to use present outdated versions. Could ports/x11 people help me there ? Thanks. --znFrcFTOc9PDN8kJ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAk4qyZwACgkQC3+MBN1Mb4jNFwCgiUxFdX7zbKNGgx37T6Vrgj8n sG0AoJCiekP+Ys3brtU76vuowLukn8hW =ZrzC -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --znFrcFTOc9PDN8kJ--
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