Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2013 16:57:36 +0000 (UTC) From: Gabor Pali <pgj@FreeBSD.org> To: doc-committers@freebsd.org, svn-doc-all@freebsd.org, svn-doc-head@freebsd.org Subject: svn commit: r42898 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status Message-ID: <201310081657.r98GvaK2034928@svn.freebsd.org>
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Author: pgj Date: Tue Oct 8 16:57:36 2013 New Revision: 42898 URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/42898 Log: - Add Q3 report on the status of X.Org Submitted by: dumbbell Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2013-07-2013-09.xml Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2013-07-2013-09.xml ============================================================================== --- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2013-07-2013-09.xml Tue Oct 8 16:34:30 2013 (r42897) +++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2013-07-2013-09.xml Tue Oct 8 16:57:36 2013 (r42898) @@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ <!-- XXX: keep updating the number of entries --> <p>Thanks to all the reporters for the excellent work! This report - contains 28 entries and we hope you enjoy reading it.</p> + contains 29 entries and we hope you enjoy reading it.</p> <!-- XXX: set date for the next set of submissions --> <p>The deadline for submissions covering between October and @@ -1439,4 +1439,103 @@ repository access file in July, performed by Gavin Atkinson.</p> </body> </project> + + <project cat='ports'> + <title>X.Org on &os;</title> + + <contact> + <person> + <name>&os;X11 Team</name> + <email>x11@FreeBSD.org</email> + </person> + </contact> + + <links> + <url href="https://wiki.freebsd.org/Graphics">X11 Team roadmap (WIP)</url> + <url href="https://wiki.freebsd.org/Xorg">Ports-related status</url> + <url href="http://trillian.chruetertee.ch/ports/browser/trunk">Ports-related development repository</url> + <url href="https://wiki.freebsd.org/AMD_GPU">AMD GPU status</url> + <url href="https://github.com/dumbbell/freebsd/tree/kms-drm-update-38">DRM generic code update branch on GitHub</url> + </links> + + <body> + <p>Mesa 9.1 (libGL and dri) was updated in ports. This includes + experimental ports for libEGL and libgles2: they are + dependencies of the experimental ports for Wayland and + Weston.</p> + + <p>The <tt>radeonkms</tt> driver was committed to &os; + <tt>head</tt> in the end of August and will be part of + 10.0-RELEASE. It received several fixes since the initial + commit and now it seems quite stable. However, one missing + major feature is support for suspend/resume: the GPU almost + always locks up during resume on the test computer.</p> + + <p>Thanks to the update of Mesa and the update of + <tt>x11-drivers/xf86-video-ati</tt> to 7.2.0 + in the ports tree, every pieces are in place to allow users to use recent + AMD video cards (up to HD7000, maybe some HD8000).</p> + + <p>The driver will now only receive bug fixes and focus will move + on the update of the DRM generic code and the <tt>i915</tt> + driver.</p> + + <p>The generic DRM code, shared by the <tt>i915kms</tt> and + <tt>radeonkms</tt> video drivers is quite old now. Work has + started to update and sync it with that of Linux 3.8. This + code is available on GitHub.</p> + + <p>The expected benefits are:</p> + + <ul> + <li>Fixes in the framebuffer code, which would help the future + deployment of Newcons.</li> + + <li>Preliminary support for minor devices (that is, control vs. + render nodes).</li> + + <li>Support for <tt>setmaster</tt> and <tt>dropmaster</tt>, + which allows to run multiple X sessions.</li> + </ul> + + <p>François Tigeot from DragonFly is also working on updates to + their DRM code, and the X11 team is planning to share the + effort.</p> + + <p>An experimental <tt>devd(8)</tt> backend was added to the + <tt>x11-servers/xorg-server</tt> port. This allows X.Org to use + <tt>devd(8)</tt> to detect and configure input devices (for + example, keyboards and mices) dynamically.</p> + + <p>Our current wiki articles are used to describe projects and + report status. However, they lack some consistency and links + between them. We started to think about reorganizing them + to:</p> + + <ul> + <li>Improve the coordination between the ports and the kernel + efforts.</li> + + <li>Make the information more accessible.</li> + </ul> + + <p>Nothing is visible yet on the wiki.</p> + </body> + + <help> + <task>Keep tracking Mesa 9.2 or later and <tt>xorg-server</tt> + 1.14. Both are currently blocked, but it is good to keep track of + what upstream is doing.</task> + + <task>Test and report successes and failures for AMD GPUs.</task> + + <task>Wayland builds now. Work is being done on Weston to see if + there are any run-time issues. Weston is the reference + compositor for Wayland.</task> + + <task>Improve the <tt>devd(8)</tt> backend for + <tt>x11-servers/xorg-server</tt>, so the HAL option can be + removed completely.</task> + </help> + </project> </report>
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