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

[Matthew Macy]

 ---- On Tue, 16 Aug 2016 16:28:31 -0700 Andrei <az at azsupport.com> wrote ---- 
 > Are you talking about FreeBSD HEAD? Still nothing there. 

My post made made no mention of FreeBSD HEAD. 

Eventually the necessary patches to sys/ will be merged and the work in drm-next will be available as a port.

 > On Tue, 16 Aug 2016 00:12:44 -0700 
 > Matthew Macy <mmacy at nextbsd.org> 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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