Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2015 21:46:52 +0000 (UTC) From: Ed Maste <emaste@FreeBSD.org> To: doc-committers@freebsd.org, svn-doc-all@freebsd.org, svn-doc-head@freebsd.org Subject: svn commit: r47576 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status Message-ID: <201510152146.t9FLkqKW055188@repo.freebsd.org>
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Author: emaste (src committer) Date: Thu Oct 15 21:46:52 2015 New Revision: 47576 URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/47576 Log: Add graphics update from dumbbell@ Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-07-2015-09.xml Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-07-2015-09.xml ============================================================================== --- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-07-2015-09.xml Thu Oct 15 21:14:56 2015 (r47575) +++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-07-2015-09.xml Thu Oct 15 21:46:52 2015 (r47576) @@ -822,6 +822,66 @@ </help> </project> + <project cat="ports"> + <title>The Graphics stack on FreeBSD</title> + + <contact> + <person> + <name> + <common>FreeBSD Graphics team</common> + </name> + <email>freebsd-x11@FreeBSD.org</email> + </person> + </contact> + + <links> + <url href="https://wiki.freebsd.org/Graphics">Graphics stack roadmap and supported hardware matrix</url> + <url href="http://blogs.freebsdish.org/graphics/">Graphics stack team blog</url> + <url href="https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-ports-graphics">Ports development tree on GitHub</url> + </links> + + <body> + <p>The Mesa ports were updated to 10.6.8. At the same time the + ports received a major overhaul to make sure all ports are + correctly configured. + Also the dual version support was removed, there is only one + mesa version for all supported FreeBSD versions. + The libosmesa port was merged into the Mesa framework.</p> + + <p>Another big item that was included in the Mesa port was + OpenCL. There are two GPU based OpenCL implimentations + namely: + lang/clover for supported Radeon cards and + lang/beignet for supported Intel cards (currently only + Ivybridge). + Thanks go to Johannes Dieterich, O. Hartman, and Koop Mast + for making this happen.</p> + + <p>Now that Mesa is up-to-date, we can do the same with the + X.Org server. + Currently at 1.14, an update to 1.17 is ready. + It should be committed shortly.</p> + + <p>On the kernel side progress has been made with the + i915 update. The driver is able to attach. + There are some reports that the X.Org server starts, but Mesa + is unhappy so acceleration doesn't work yet. + If you want to test, instructions will be posted on the wiki, + in the i915 update article (see links). + At this stage, we can only accept patches though, we won't be + able to provide support.</p> + + <p>We attended two conferences: XDC 2015 in Toronto and + EuroBSDcon 2015 in Stockholm. + Reports will be posted on the blog.</p> + </body> + + <help> + <task>See the "Graphics" wiki page for up-to-date + information.</task> + </help> + </project> + <project cat='misc'> <title>The FreeBSD Foundation</title>
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