Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2017 13:20:37 -0400 From: Theron <theron.tarigo@gmail.com> To: Bob Willcox <bob@immure.com>, Thomas Mueller <mueller6722@twc.com> Cc: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Status of Intel Broadwell GPU Support?? Message-ID: <5d9d18c0-e73a-3f08-3ec5-7ad0e4d96ca1@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20170322125003.GL3359@rancor.immure.com> 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>
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On 03/22/17 08:50, Bob Willcox wrote: > On Wed, Mar 22, 2017 at 09:02:27AM +0000, Thomas Mueller wrote: >>> Hooray!! My system is up and running the FreeBSDDesktop/freebsd-base-graphics version! >>> The download, build, & install was mostly uneventful. Thanks again for your help! >>> Bob >>> Bob Willcox >> Did you use freebsd-base-graphics for buildworld and buildkernel, or did you use the normal /usr/src for buildworld and freebsd-base-graphics for the kernel? >> >> >> Tom >> > I followed the instructions here: > > 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 think the problem with upstreaming is that FreeBSDDesktop/freebsd-base-graphics uses elements of the Linux source tree organization, namely the drivers/gpu and Documentation/gpu directories, which do not fit in the normal FreeBSD source tree. As far as I can tell the FreeBSDDesktop team did this to minimize differences between Linux and FreeBSD gpu sources. Maybe these directories should be put elsewhere and just the makefiles modified to resolve the differences? Or have the source consist of the files with unmodified Linux paths along side a patch file correcting the differences, similarly to ports? Given that most technical issues are out of the way and that there is a high user demand for this support, it seems to be time for the developers to revisit this issue. Theron
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