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

[Jonathan Anderson]

On 27 Sep 2016, at 3:19, Matthew Macy wrote:

> So long as 99% of people are duly respectful of the fact that this has 
> been a great deal of work and that there is more work that lies ahead 
> we'll be fine.

I, for one, am very grateful for this work and try to help with testing 
where I can. For the past couple of years I've wanted to recommend 
FreeBSD to students and the people who manage our computer labs, but the 
lack of support for contemporary graphics was a real blocker while I've 
Linux uptake grow by leaps and bounds. Thanks to Matt's work, I'm now 
running FreeBSD on a recent notebook rather than VMs or old hardware 
from eBay. i915 on drm-next-4.7 has become quite stable and reliable, to 
the point where I'd recommend it to students escaping Windows once it 
lands in a release (12.0?). FreeBSD grew out of a university context, 
and I think that we need university students using it and hacking on it 
to generate new developers, new companies, etc.


Jon
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Jonathan Anderson
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