Problem with the most recent Intel driver

Niclas Zeising zeising at daemonic.se
Thu Aug 22 00:04:35 UTC 2013


On 2013-08-21 18:36, Kevin Oberman wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 8:38 AM, Mark Felder <feld at freebsd.org> wrote:
> 
>> On Wed, Aug 21, 2013, at 10:37, Mark Felder wrote:
>>> switching for the new DRI/KVM/Intel/whatever framework is finished. I
>>
>> I meant KMS. Don't know why I said KVM.
>>
>> Anyway...
>>
> 
> You said KVM because of just too many TLAs.
> 
> As far as timing is concerned, see the latest FreeBSD project quarterly
> status update:
>   "The first deliverables of the project, including moused(8), ukbd(4),
>    and KMS support are expected to arrive around the middle or end of
>    August 2013. The whole project is expected to complete in November
>    2013."

Hopefully the KMS aware console will make it in time for FreeBSD 10.0,
although that is a somewhat tight schedule.
> 
> Of course, these will be delivered to head, not stable, at least initially.
> It's been over a year since I have run -current, butthis will get me back
> to life on the cutting, and likely bleeding edge.
> 

Current has been reasonably stable, at least for me.  There are most
likely some rough edges though.  I don't know if it will be possible to
MFC the console work to 9-STABLE.
Regards!
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