Intel GPU Driver Update

From owner-svn-doc-all@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Oct 12 21:33:49 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 TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 007A71B4; Sun, 12 Oct 2014 21:33:48 +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 D61E1C23; Sun, 12 Oct 2014 21:33:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from svn.freebsd.org ([127.0.1.70]) by svn.freebsd.org (8.14.9/8.14.9) with ESMTP id s9CLXmGE090557; Sun, 12 Oct 2014 21:33:48 GMT (envelope-from wblock@FreeBSD.org) Received: (from wblock@localhost) by svn.freebsd.org (8.14.9/8.14.9/Submit) id s9CLXmXK090555; Sun, 12 Oct 2014 21:33:48 GMT (envelope-from wblock@FreeBSD.org) Message-Id: <201410122133.s9CLXmXK090555@svn.freebsd.org> X-Authentication-Warning: svn.freebsd.org: wblock set sender to wblock@FreeBSD.org using -f From: Warren Block Date: Sun, 12 Oct 2014 21:33:48 +0000 (UTC) To: doc-committers@freebsd.org, svn-doc-all@freebsd.org, svn-doc-head@freebsd.org Subject: svn commit: r45803 - 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: 2.1.18-1 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: Sun, 12 Oct 2014 21:33:49 -0000 Author: wblock Date: Sun Oct 12 21:33:48 2014 New Revision: 45803 URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/45803 Log: Whitespace-only fixes, translators please ignore. Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-07-2014-09.xml Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-07-2014-09.xml ============================================================================== --- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-07-2014-09.xml Sun Oct 12 21:23:35 2014 (r45802) +++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-07-2014-09.xml Sun Oct 12 21:33:48 2014 (r45803) @@ -29,11 +29,11 @@

The third quarter of 2014 was another productive quarter for the &os; project. A lot of work has been done on various ARM platforms, with the goal of bringing them to Tier 1 status in - &os; 11. The various ports teams have also worked hard to improve - the state of &os; as a desktop operating system. As usual, - performance improvements feature in several places in this - report and many of these can benefit from user benchmarking to - validate our results.

+ &os; 11. The various ports teams have also worked hard to + improve the state of &os; as a desktop operating system. As + usual, performance improvements feature in several places in + this report and many of these can benefit from user benchmarking + to validate our results.

Thanks to all the reporters for the excellent work! This report contains 0 entries and we hope you enjoy reading it.

@@ -160,9 +160,8 @@ -

- Building on the new in-kernel iSCSI target and initiator stack - released in &os; 10.0, Chelsio Communications has begun +

Building on the new in-kernel iSCSI target and initiator + stack released in &os; 10.0, Chelsio Communications has begun developing an offload interface to take advantage of the hardware offload capabilities of Chelsio T4 and T5 10 and 40 gigabit Ethernet adapters.

@@ -256,9 +255,9 @@

The Xfce team continues to keep each piece of the Xfce Desktop up to date. That is why we are working on the next - stable release (no date scheduled). There were no major updates - in the ports tree except for cosmetic changes this quarter.

- + stable release (no date scheduled). There were no major + updates in the ports tree except for cosmetic changes this + quarter.

Major upcoming changes include:

@@ -372,21 +371,22 @@ about ZFS than proper documentation.

After over a year of work, a new ZFS chapter has been added - to the &os; Handbook. Over 20,000 words describe the - basics of creating, managing, and maintaining a ZFS pool. - Advanced features like compression, - deduplication, and delegation are covered. The chapter also contains a - glossary of terms, explaining a number of the concepts unique - to ZFS, and documents some of - the many sysctl variables that can be used for tuning.

- -

The remaining work to be done is in the FAQ section, which aims to help - users address the most common questions or problems they might - face with ZFS. We would like to hear experiences, - questions, misconceptions, gotchas, stumbling blocks and - suggestions for the FAQ section from other users. A use cases - section that highlights some of the cases where ZFS provides - advantages over traditional file systems is also planned.

+ to the &os; Handbook. Over 20,000 words describe the basics + of creating, managing, and maintaining a ZFS pool. Advanced + features like compression, deduplication, and delegation are + covered. The chapter also contains a glossary of terms, + explaining a number of the concepts unique to ZFS, and + documents some of the many sysctl variables that can + be used for tuning.

+ +

The remaining work to be done is in the FAQ section, which + aims to help users address the most common questions or + problems they might face with ZFS. We would like to hear + experiences, questions, misconceptions, gotchas, stumbling + blocks and suggestions for the FAQ section from other users. + A use cases section that highlights some of the cases where + ZFS provides advantages over traditional file systems is also + planned.

Please send suggestions to the docs mailing list.

@@ -601,8 +601,8 @@

Note that running Asan tests on stable/10 requires that state to be set to 1.

A similar work is in progress to add &os; support to the thread - sanitizer (Tsan), which detects data races in parallel +

A similar work is in progress to add &os; support to the + thread sanitizer (Tsan), which detects data races in parallel programs.

@@ -633,13 +633,14 @@ USERS. Network configuration, ZFS options, and others are also included.

The Second part of the project is about booting the fai (Fully - Automatic Installer) from the network by PXE. An installer - distro was created based on mfsBSD. After boot, fai looks for the - "bootfile-name" parameter from the DHCP server. This - parameter tells fai where the bsdinstall script is - located. fai supports MAC-based configuration, or a default if a - MAC-based configuration file does not exist.

The Second part of the project is about booting the + fai (Fully Automatic Installer) from the network by + PXE. An installer distro was created based on mfsBSD. After + boot, fai looks for the "bootfile-name" parameter + from the DHCP server. This parameter tells fai where + the bsdinstall script is located. fai + supports MAC-based configuration, or a default if a MAC-based + configuration file does not exist.

@@ -650,9 +651,11 @@

Documentation, including a HOWTO and handbook

More tests in different configurations

Support for more than one network interface is planned

@@ -686,8 +689,8 @@

MATE is a fork of GNOME 2. The MATE ports were updated to the 1.8 versions.

Cairo, the vector graphics library used by GNOME, - has been updated to 1.12. This allowed the merge of GNOME 3 to begin. +

Cairo, the vector graphics library used by GNOME, has been + updated to 1.12. This allowed the merge of GNOME 3 to begin. We are currently doing test builds to find ports broken by the update and pruning ports that do not build any more because of incompatible updates.

@@ -727,8 +730,8 @@

The newest graphics stack (that is, ports behind the - WITH_NEW_XORG knob) was enabled on all architectures. The - only regression is for users of Intel GPUs and &os; 8.X or + WITH_NEW_XORG knob) was enabled on all architectures. + The only regression is for users of Intel GPUs and &os; 8.X or 9.0. Those releases lack the required kernel driver and therefore xf86-video-intel will not work (the last UMS-aware version does not work with xserver 1.12). Users can @@ -1830,6 +1833,7 @@ + Intel GPU Driver Update @@ -1848,16 +1852,14 @@ -

- The project to update the Intel graphics chipset driver +

The project to update the Intel graphics chipset driver (i915kms) to a recent snapshot of the Linux upstream code continues. A patch with a large chunk of updates has been made available to test for regressions against current - functionality, but is not yet expected to provide working new functions. - The GEM I/O ioctl code path - has been modified to more closely resemble the Linux code - structure (easing future imports). -

+ functionality, but is not yet expected to provide working new + functions. The GEM I/O ioctl code path has been modified to + more closely resemble the Linux code structure (easing future + imports).

@@ -1868,6 +1870,7 @@ Fix any bugs reported against the latest versions of the patch. + Make Haswell graphics work with Mesa.