Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2017 15:55:17 -0700 From: Pete Wright <pete@nomadlogic.org> To: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Status of Intel Broadwell GPU Support?? Message-ID: <23b3474f-382a-ee65-3b1e-fa5c2bbb4b31@nomadlogic.org> In-Reply-To: <18.25.29375.93E44D85@dnvrco-omsmta02> References: <20170321182231.GG77624@rancor.immure.com> <25c5ecee-b617-a55b-c8f9-cf041b7ecf92@nomadlogic.org> <20170321201843.GH77624@rancor.immure.com> <10d5602e-8fe5-1d2c-1e07-5ca2f62ebfe0@nomadlogic.org> <20170321222823.GA79219@rancor.immure.com> <79.B5.25473.52E32D85@dnvrco-omsmta03> <20170322125003.GL3359@rancor.immure.com> <5F.72.29375.2FB73D85@dnvrco-omsmta02> <5ac76e08-6a12-76b5-0b67-7f69389eec8e@nomadlogic.org> <18.25.29375.93E44D85@dnvrco-omsmta02>
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On 03/23/2017 15:35, Thomas Mueller wrote: >>> On 03/23/17 00:38, Thomas Mueller wrote: >>>> https://github.com/FreeBSDDesktop/freebsd-base-graphics >>>> and used freebsd-base-graphics for both buildword and buildkernel. I'm not too >>>> clear on just what that means for any future updates, though. I have been >>>> hoping for the past year or more that the patches/changes included in >>>> freebsd-base-graphics would get integrated into the base. I really don't know >>>> if that's happened or planned to be done. Been kinda frustrating. >>> Bob >>> I look further and see that you need a slightly different ports tree: >>> https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-ports-graphics.git >>> but I think you need to put -b xserver-next at the end of the git command (and git at the beginning). >>> Then such a FreeBSD installation would have to be separate from an installation that uses regular src tree and ports tree, lest the ABI and shared libraries be out of sync. >> Hrm, I think the wiki is out of date, or unclear, in regards to the separate >> ports tree. As of the latest Xorg updates which brought us up to v1.18 this >> is not necessarily needed. i am running drm-next kernel+world and installing >> all packages off of the freebsd.org pkg repository with success. this ports >> tree should still work, but is no longer a hard requirement - i'll block out >> some time to update the wiki today. >> -pete > >> Pete Wright > I believe, freebsd-ports-graphics would be mostly the same as regular ports tree except for category x11? > > I see (NetBSD) pkgsrc is already up to v1.19.3 for modular-xorg-server, but don't think pkgsrc would successfully mix with freebsd-base-graphics. > > I don't want to keep two ports trees if there is no advantage in so doing. > > Tom IIRC that branch was originally created to test out drm-next while we were waiting for the upstream FreeBSD ports tree to import xorg-1.18.x and the updated GL and DRI bits. So I think the hard requirement for a non-official ports tree on drm-next is no longer needed. Cheers, -pete -- Pete Wright pete@nomadlogic.org @nomadlogicLA
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