The Graphics stack on &os;

From owner-svn-doc-all@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 8 16:42:18 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: svn-doc-all@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 8CACFB32; Tue, 8 Apr 2014 16:42:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from svn.freebsd.org (svn.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:2068::e6a:0]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 7860B1695; Tue, 8 Apr 2014 16:42:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from svn.freebsd.org ([127.0.1.70]) by svn.freebsd.org (8.14.8/8.14.8) with ESMTP id s38GgIaI007167; Tue, 8 Apr 2014 16:42:18 GMT (envelope-from pgj@svn.freebsd.org) Received: (from pgj@localhost) by svn.freebsd.org (8.14.8/8.14.8/Submit) id s38GgI9s007166; Tue, 8 Apr 2014 16:42:18 GMT (envelope-from pgj@svn.freebsd.org) Message-Id: <201404081642.s38GgI9s007166@svn.freebsd.org> From: Gabor Pali Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2014 16:42:18 +0000 (UTC) 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 X-SVN-Group: doc-head MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-BeenThere: svn-doc-all@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.17 Precedence: list List-Id: "SVN commit messages for the entire doc trees \(except for " user" , " projects" , and " translations" \)" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2014 16:42:18 -0000 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 @@

Thanks to all the reporters for the excellent work! This report - contains 32 entries and we hope you enjoy reading it.

+ contains 33 entries and we hope you enjoy reading it.

The deadline for submissions covering between April and June 2014 is July 7th, 2014.

@@ -2027,4 +2027,78 @@ device vt_efifb Move lang/gcc from GCC 4.7 to GCC 4.8. + + + The Graphics stack on &os; + + + + &os; Graphics Team + graphics-team@FreeBSD.org + + + + + Graphics stack roadmap and supported hardware matrix + WITH_NEW_XORG status + Ports-related development repository + + + +

On the kernel side, the Radeon KMS driver was merged in + stable/9 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.

+ +

The next big tasks are the updates of the DRM generic code and + the i915 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.

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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 Heads up mail will be posted to the + freebsd-x11 mailing-list when this update goes + live.

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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/libc++.

+ +

We are preparing an alternate pkg(8) repository with + packages built with WITH_NEW_XORG. The goal is to ease + the usage of the KMS drivers and move forward with the graphics + stack updates. The main pkg(8) repository will still + use the default setting (WITH_NEW_XORG set on + head, but not on the stable branches).

+ +

This will pave the way to WITH_NEW_XORG 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 WITH_NEW_XORG 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.

+ + + + See the Graphics and WITH_NEW_XORG wiki pages + for up-to-date information. + +