gfx-next update: drm-4.8-rc2 tagged in drm-next

[Kubilay Kocak]

On 16/08/2016 5:12 PM, Matthew Macy wrote:
> As of this moment sys/dev/drm in the drm-next tree is sync with https://github.com/torvalds/linux drivers/gpu/drm (albeit only for the subset of drivers that FreeBSD supports -  i915, radeon, and amdgpu). I feel this is a bit of a milestone as it means that it is possible that in the future graphics support on FreeBSD could proceed in lockstep with Linux. 
> 
> In addition I have IFCed both drm-next-4.6 and drm-next to HEAD as of today.
> 
> Once I'm done working on Kaby Lake support I intend to get radeon and amdgpu to the point where they work as well as i915. Following that we'll need to spend some time resolving general correctness issues.
> 
> -M
> 

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