Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2014 16:42:18 +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: r44490 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status Message-ID: <201404081642.s38GgI9s007166@svn.freebsd.org>
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Author: pgj Date: Tue Apr 8 16:42:17 2014 New Revision: 44490 URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/44490 Log: - Add 2014Q1 status report for the Graphics stack Submitted by: dumbbell Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-01-2014-03.xml Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-01-2014-03.xml ============================================================================== --- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-01-2014-03.xml Tue Apr 8 15:52:52 2014 (r44489) +++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-01-2014-03.xml Tue Apr 8 16:42:17 2014 (r44490) @@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ <!-- XXX: Keep the number of entries updated --> <p>Thanks to all the reporters for the excellent work! This report - contains 32 entries and we hope you enjoy reading it.</p> + contains 33 entries and we hope you enjoy reading it.</p> <p>The deadline for submissions covering between April and June 2014 is July 7th, 2014.</p> @@ -2027,4 +2027,78 @@ device vt_efifb</pre> <task>Move <tt>lang/gcc</tt> from GCC 4.7 to GCC 4.8.</task> </help> </project> + + <project cat='ports'> + <title>The Graphics stack on &os;</title> + + <contact> + <person> + <name>&os; Graphics Team</name> + <email>graphics-team@FreeBSD.org</email> + </person> + </contact> + + <links> + <url href="https://wiki.freebsd.org/Graphics">Graphics stack roadmap and supported hardware matrix</url> + <url href="https://wiki.freebsd.org/Graphics/WITH_NEW_XORG">WITH_NEW_XORG status</url> + <url href="http://trillian.chruetertee.ch/ports/browser/trunk">Ports-related development repository</url> + </links> + + <body> + <p>On the kernel side, the Radeon KMS driver was merged in + <tt>stable/9</tt> and will be available in &os; 9.3-RELEASE. + Now both the 9.x and 10.x branches share the same support for + Intel and AMD GPUs.</p> + + <p>The next big tasks are the updates of the DRM generic code and + the <tt>i915</tt> driver. Both are making good progress and the + DRM update should hopefully be ready for wider testing during + April. An update of the Radeon driver is on the to-do list, but + nothing is scheduled yet.</p> + + <p>On the ports tree and packages side, the update to Cairo 1.12 + mentioned in the last quarterly report is ready to be committed, + as people who tested it either reported improvements or no + regressions. As a reminder, the switch from Cairo 1.10 to 1.12 + causes display artifacts with xf86-video-intel 2.7.1, but fixes + similar problems with other hardware/driver combinations. + Furthermore, Cairo 1.12 is required by Pango 1.36.0, GTK+ 3.10 + and Firefox 27.0. A <q>Heads up</q> mail will be posted to the + <tt>freebsd-x11</tt> mailing-list when this update goes + live.</p> + + <p>In the graphics stack's ports development tree, new Mesa ports + are being worked on. Those ports are required to support GLAMOR + (the GL-based 2D acceleration library used by Radeon HD 7000+ + cards for instance) and OpenCL (using the GPU to perform + non-graphical calculations). We were able to execute some + "Hello World" OpenCL programs and play with OpenCL in darktable, + but there are some compatibility issues between Clover (Mesa's + libOpenCL implementation) and Clang/<tt>libc++</tt>.</p> + + <p>We are preparing an alternate <tt>pkg(8)</tt> repository with + packages built with <tt>WITH_NEW_XORG</tt>. The goal is to ease + the usage of the KMS drivers and move forward with the graphics + stack updates. The main <tt>pkg(8)</tt> repository will still + use the default setting (<tt>WITH_NEW_XORG</tt> set on + <tt>head</tt>, but not on the <tt>stable</tt> branches).</p> + + <p>This will pave the way to <tt>WITH_NEW_XORG</tt> deprecation + and the removal of the older stack. The current plan is to do + this after 10.0-RELEASE End-of-Life, scheduled on January 31st, + 2015. By that time, the only supported releases will be + 8.4-RELEASE, 9.3-RELEASE and 10.1-RELEASE. &os; 9.3 and 10.1 + will be fully equipped to work with the newer stack. + Unfortunately, &os; 8.x misses the required kernel DRM + infrastructure: supporting X.Org here cripples progress on the + graphics stack and, once <tt>WITH_NEW_XORG</tt> is gone, we will + not support 8.x as a desktop anymore. Therefore, please upgrade + to 9.3 or 10.1 when they are available.</p> + </body> + + <help> + <task>See the <q>Graphics</q> and <q>WITH_NEW_XORG</q> wiki pages + for up-to-date information.</task> + </help> + </project> </report>
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