Date: Sun, 7 Jul 2013 21:52:50 -0400 (EDT) From: Benjamin Kaduk <kaduk@MIT.EDU> To: Gabor Pali <pgj@freebsd.org> Cc: svn-doc-head@freebsd.org, svn-doc-all@freebsd.org, doc-committers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r42185 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status Message-ID: <alpine.GSO.1.10.1307072149230.26275@multics.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <201307070607.r6767sFL068075@svn.freebsd.org> References: <201307070607.r6767sFL068075@svn.freebsd.org>
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On Sun, 7 Jul 2013, Gabor Pali wrote: > Author: pgj > Date: Sun Jul 7 06:07:53 2013 > New Revision: 42185 > URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/42185 > > Log: > - Add a Q2 report entry on the xorg work > > Submitted by: zeising > > Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2013-04-2013-06.xml > ============================================================================== > --- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2013-04-2013-06.xml Sun Jul 7 05:55:16 2013 (r42184) > +++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2013-04-2013-06.xml Sun Jul 7 06:07:53 2013 (r42185) > @@ -1139,4 +1139,82 @@ > for more.</p> > </body> > </project> > + > + <project cat='ports'> > + <title>xorg on &os;</title> > + > + <contact> > + <person> > + <email>x11@FreeBSD.org</email> > + </person> > + > + <person> > + <name> > + <given>Niclas</given> > + <common>Zeising</common> > + </name> > + <email>zeising@FreeBSD.org</email> > + </person> > + > + <person> > + <name> > + <given>Koop</given> > + <common>Mast</common> > + </name> > + <email>kwm@FreeBSD.org</email> > + </person> > + </contact> > + > + <links> > + <url href="http://wiki.freebsd.org/Xorg"/>; > + <url href="http://trillian.chruetertee.ch/ports/browser/trunk"/>; > + </links> > + > + <body> > + <p>During the beginning of this quarter, work focused on making > + the <tt>xorg</tt> update as robust and stable as possible in > + preparation for the merge to ports. As part of this exp-run > + were made, to find and resolve regressions and other issues. "As a part of this, Ports exp-runs were performed to find and resolve regressions and other issues." > + Once this was completed, <tt>xorg</tt> was updated to version > + 7.7 on May 25, after more than a year of hard work.</p> > + > + <p>After the update, work immediately shifted to focus on updating > + and patching <tt>xorg</tt> client libraries, since numerous > + security issues had been identified in those. Unfortunately, > + this took a little longer than anticipated, but all fixes were > + comitted eventually.</p> > + > + <p>There has also been work on making the new <tt>xorg</tt> > + distribution the default for &os; 9.1 and later. A patch > + was sent out and tested with good results, but this is currently > + postponed because switching virtual terminals is not working > + with the KMS driver.</p> I heard a rumor that the FreeBSD Foundation had funded some work for fixing VT switching with KMS? If so, that would be good to mention. > + <p>Currently, work is focusing on keeping <tt>xorg</tt> drivers > + and libraries up to date. Instead of making big updates every > + year or less, minor updates to some libraries, applications and > + drivers happen fairly regularly. Focus is also starting to > + shift towards newer versions of MESA and <tt>xorg-server</tt>, > + but this is still very experimental.</p> > + </body> > + > + <help> > + <task>Continue the porting effort of recent versions of MESA. > + This is ongoing work, but integrating this into the development > + repo is hard work. Once this is completed, and KMS support for > + ATI is more mature, more testing can be done.</task> > + > + <task>Port Wayland. The future of graphical environments in open > + source operating system seem to be Wayland. This needs to be "seems" > + ported to &os; so that a wider audience can test it, and so that > + it eventually can be integrated into the ports tree, perhaps as > + a replacement for the current <tt>xorg</tt>.</task> > + > + <task>Look into replacements for HAL. HAL is used for > + hot-plugging of devices, but it has been long abandoned by Linux. > + A replacement, perhaps build on top of devd would be nice to comma after devd (or use parens for the parenthetical remark). -Ben > + have. This work should be coordinated with the &os; GNOME and > + KDE teams.</task> > + </help> > + </project> > </report> >
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