Intel Haswell support - Any updates?

[Andreas Nilsson]

I guess interested parties could keep an eye on
https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-base-graphics/tree/drm-i915-update-38
and https://wiki.freebsd.org/Graphics

Best regards
Andreas

On Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at 11:20 AM, Lundberg, Johannes <
johannes at brilliantservice.co.jp> wrote:

> I am wondering the same.. I am sure the very few developers we have are
> working as much as they can on this.
>
> However, the lack of support for the most common hardware since three years
> back is, I believe, preventing many new users, beginners as well as
> professionals, from coming to FreeBSD, and I hope the foundation would pour
> some money into this to speed up the development...
>
> Making it possible to use Wayland on FreeBSD would open up for a whole new
> category on devices (mobile, IVI, etc) where many people are now wondering
> whether to go Linux, Android or something else.. FreeBSD has the license
> and the stability making it very attractive, all that's missing is a modern
> graphics stack..
>
> If I had the skills or resources I would pitch in but currently I don't so
> all I can do is complain to the foundation.
>
> I would love to see FreeBSD become the de facto OS in these new areas and
> it feels like it could be within reach... Or maybe my feeling is way off,
> correct me if I'm wrong :)
>
> Sorry for the rant...
>
> Johannes
>
> On Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at 5:00 PM, Anders Bolt-Evensen <
> andersbo87 at icloud.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Hello!
> >
> > I'm just curious about how Intel Haswell GPU support in FreeBSD is coming
> > along?
> > What's the ETA of when the driver can be tested?
> >
> > Anders
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