From owner-svn-doc-head@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jul 7 06:07:54 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: svn-doc-head@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 760562B8; Sun, 7 Jul 2013 06:07:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pgj@FreeBSD.org) Received: from svn.freebsd.org (svn.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:2068::e6a:0]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 66D741250; Sun, 7 Jul 2013 06:07:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: from svn.freebsd.org ([127.0.1.70]) by svn.freebsd.org (8.14.7/8.14.7) with ESMTP id r6767sDw068076; Sun, 7 Jul 2013 06:07:54 GMT (envelope-from pgj@svn.freebsd.org) Received: (from pgj@localhost) by svn.freebsd.org (8.14.7/8.14.5/Submit) id r6767sFL068075; Sun, 7 Jul 2013 06:07:54 GMT (envelope-from pgj@svn.freebsd.org) Message-Id: <201307070607.r6767sFL068075@svn.freebsd.org> From: Gabor Pali Date: Sun, 7 Jul 2013 06:07:54 +0000 (UTC) To: doc-committers@freebsd.org, svn-doc-all@freebsd.org, svn-doc-head@freebsd.org Subject: svn commit: r42185 - 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-head@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: SVN commit messages for the doc tree for head List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 07 Jul 2013 06:07:54 -0000 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 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) @@ -18,7 +18,7 @@

Thanks to all the reporters for the excellent work! This report - contains 20 entries and we hope you enjoy reading it.

+ contains 21 entries and we hope you enjoy reading it.

The deadline for submissions covering between July and September 2013 @@ -1139,4 +1139,82 @@ for more.

+ + + xorg on &os; + + + + x11@FreeBSD.org + + + + + Niclas + Zeising + + zeising@FreeBSD.org + + + + + Koop + Mast + + kwm@FreeBSD.org + + + + + + + + + +

During the beginning of this quarter, work focused on making + the xorg 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. + Once this was completed, xorg was updated to version + 7.7 on May 25, after more than a year of hard work.

+ +

After the update, work immediately shifted to focus on updating + and patching xorg 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.

+ +

There has also been work on making the new xorg + 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.

+ +

Currently, work is focusing on keeping xorg 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 xorg-server, + but this is still very experimental.

+ + + + 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. + + Port Wayland. The future of graphical environments in open + source operating system seem to be Wayland. This needs to be + 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 xorg. + + 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 + have. This work should be coordinated with the &os; GNOME and + KDE teams. + +