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Date:      Tue, 27 Sep 2016 13:40:56 +0300
From:      abi <abi@abinet.ru>
To:        freebsd-x11@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: gfx-next future in ports ( was gfx-next update: drm-4.8-rc2 tagged in drm-next )
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Yeah, brightness and resume issues are bad enough, however both of them 
are on Github bug tracker, so I hope they will be eventually tracked and 
squashed :)


On 27.09.16 09:57, Andreas Nilsson wrote:
> Hello,
>
> first, thanks for the amazing work Matthew and everyone else!
>
>   > > Eventually all the requisite patches to sys will make it in at which
>   > > point drm-next-<n> will become available as a port allowing one to
>   > > install the drivers just as one installs xorg and the ddx today.
>   > > Keeping it as a port will allow us to decouple freebsd releases from
>   > > graphics developments making it possible to support the latest
>   > > hardware on near EOL branches.
>
> Does this mean that all kms-enabled drivers will be removed from the main
> tree and shipped as  ports, or will the ports modules have higher priority
> and be loaded before the ones included in GENERIC?
>
> I met quite a few people at EuroBSDcon running drm-next-4.7 on recent intel
> cpuswith great success. The only lacking bits seems to be brightness
> adjustment and suspend2ram ( screen remains off ). Is there anybody to
> nudge/sponsor to have those areas looked into?
>
> Best regards
> Andreas
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