Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2016 08:40:43 -0500 From: Shawn Webb <shawn.webb@hardenedbsd.org> To: Jean-S??bastien P??dron <jean-sebastien.pedron@dumbbell.fr> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Haswell graphics (i915) still not in CURRENT Message-ID: <20160224134043.GA65868@mutt-hardenedbsd> In-Reply-To: <56CD96AB.7030407@dumbbell.fr> References: <888719499.90811.1456307969945.JavaMail.ngmail@webmail14.arcor-online.net> <56CD96AB.7030407@dumbbell.fr>
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--45Z9DzgjV8m4Oswq Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 12:40:27PM +0100, Jean-S??bastien P??dron wrote: > On 24/02/2016 10:59, Carsten Kunze wrote: > > Hello, >=20 > Hi! >=20 > > At the moment CURRENT can't be used on laptops with i915 graphics,=20 > > so it may not harm to integrate a buggy i915 support in CURRENT. The=20 > > advantage would be that more users would test the driver and could > > give response. This may speed up the debugging/testing of this > > driver. >=20 > The problem is not the stability of Haswell support, but more the > regressions on already supported GPUs. >=20 > Currently, there is one big regression: > https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-base-graphics/issues/2 >=20 > It takes seconds to panic a Sandybridge or Haswell (so I suppose Ivy > Bridge is impacted too). >=20 > Once this is fixed (and so far my attempts failed), I believe the patch > can go in -CURRENT. Haswell support won't be rock solid but anyway, > Linux 3.8, the base we use, had only initial support. Many bugfixes came > in Linux 3.9 and 3.10. Hopefully, we'll get there more quickly. We at HardenedBSD have an experimental branch that is kept up-to-date with FreeBSD HEAD along with Jean-Sebastien's excellent work (and HardenedBSD's awesomeness on top of that). The code is here: https://github.com/HardenedBSD/hardenedBSD-playground/tree/hardened/experim= ental/master-i915 Latest builds are here: http://jenkins.hardenedbsd.org/builds/HardenedBSD-CURRENT-i915kms-amd64-LAT= EST/ISO-IMAGES/ Thanks, --=20 Shawn Webb HardenedBSD GPG Key ID: 0x6A84658F52456EEE GPG Key Fingerprint: 2ABA B6BD EF6A F486 BE89 3D9E 6A84 658F 5245 6EEE --45Z9DzgjV8m4Oswq Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJWzbLZAAoJEGqEZY9SRW7ui/AP/2ZZHVeSMKEjSaE5SlOKEgER JLnI0llpfCjDroAtz6335HRF9CVlKT4q3E7LjqhAAM0ChMLDbASFxzS5q/xh6kes 6wVkVdgkcHfEW+ZXO1LBAfKF/Cqly6PUMsgw5Qku4eMs5d6NJei40nUIRrR5TO+6 HmdiXm4W3Zp2ZZaGxuLE0Ex47rU6/uXgzQykP7jd/Rf2g+plfhg28qzlA6kwSxyg DDGePhLCubLVYa91sqPC70ply/jY/bJktZe4WJnezd30gT5pGEiiOKburL7wVm0j Qms6E7tGaXrwYvJodVF5Ykfmzs0ZSLyV44WXR8Zba5BA2+TrQe6h0XHboFpuPM0o dyxnfjtwrXvgAuVydcZh61Dpy5SMxPlVzAP7BCfDgObfgheGoEZmRFjU8TrqZK7j 3KHIX4UFgrK8BciHCYIg29abQTtEF+7dvTecQJEfJ50BbwMnqIltybAzmW83XD8f hzYYptBSMpNGwoWb+4HGfj9Z1uVZ9BOeJ5DkTs3jl7HudGScxk7pQJKJoqCKPr7O Js5GFVOSuipibzURQPt7FcPhatekUotGbzSLC7JDNYiVYd0v8ejBAVaVRVnKE/l7 TS0OcEJgYQSuzyx9euI3XRFE6/A8eIpQLAgvedXt0oP+oorp9gVqZatugC2xj4XB i/ISoRcOs19/UN0czja4 =+y5u -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --45Z9DzgjV8m4Oswq--
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