WITHOUT_NEW_XORG not fully supported on stable/8?

[Jean-Sébastien Pédron]

On 25.11.2014 15:20, Piotr Kubaj wrote:
> Why can't KMS drivers be thrown to port (just like other ports which
> install kernel modules) as well as be in base? That would clear the
> issue for 8.4 and 9.3 and make it possible to update drivers for them.

There's a deep integration between the video drivers and the virtual
memory manager. FreeBSD 8.x doesn't provide the necessary features to
support any video driver.

For FreeBSD 9.3, we will experiment with the i915 driver provided as a
port. This would fill the gap required to have Mesa 10.x and xserver 1.15.

Depending on how this goes, we may provide all drivers as ports. But
that will be a best effort only: if the kernel, especially the VM,
misses required features, this will not be possible.

-- 
Jean-Sébastien Pédron

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