svn commit: r43508 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status

Tue Jan 14 16:11:43 UTC 2014

Author: pgj
Date: Tue Jan 14 16:11:42 2014
New Revision: 43508
URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/43508

Log:
  - Add 2013Q4 report on X.Org
  
  Submitted by:	dumbbell

Modified:
  head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2013-10-2013-12.xml

Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2013-10-2013-12.xml
==============================================================================

--- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2013-10-2013-12.xml	Tue Jan 14 15:54:34 2014	(r43507)
+++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2013-10-2013-12.xml	Tue Jan 14 16:11:42 2014	(r43508)
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
 
     <!-- XXX: Keep updating the number of entries -->
     <p>Thanks to all the reporters for the excellent work!  This report
-      contains 21 entries and we hope you enjoy reading it.</p>
+      contains 22 entries and we hope you enjoy reading it.</p>
 
     <p>The deadline for submissions covering between January and
       March 2014 is April 7th, 2014.</p>
@@ -1167,4 +1167,83 @@
       <task>Integrate testing with Jenkins.</task>
     </help>
   </project>
+
+  <project cat='ports'>
+    <title>X.Org on &os;</title>
+
+    <contact>
+      <person>
+	<name>&os; X11 Team</name>
+	<email>x11 at FreeBSD.org</email>
+      </person>
+    </contact>
+
+    <links>
+      <url href="https://wiki.freebsd.org/Graphics">X11 roadmap and supported hardware matrix</url>
+      <url href="http://trillian.chruetertee.ch/ports/browser/trunk">Ports-related development repository</url>
+      <url href="http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-x11/2014-January/014003.html">CFT for Cairo 1.12 and 8.x survey</url>
+    </links>
+
+    <body>
+      <p>The newer graphics stack (<tt>WITH_NEW_XORG</tt>) is now built
+	by default on <tt>head</tt> and is provided as binary packages
+	from the official &os; <tt>pkg(8)</tt> repository for
+	<tt>11-CURRENT</tt>.  The major updates are:</p>
+
+      <ul>
+	<li>X.Org server 1.12.</li>
+	<li>Mesa 9.1.</li>
+	<li>Recent Intel and Radeon X.Org drivers, using exclusively
+	  the KMS kernel drivers available in &os; 9.x (Intel) and &os; 10.x
+	  (Radeon).</li>
+      </ul>
+
+      <p>This change makes X.Org on &os; <tt>head</tt> work
+	out-of-the-box on workstations and laptops based on recent Intel
+	and Radeon GPUs.  &os; 10.x will follow in a few weeks or
+	months.</p>
+
+      <p>Some software has started to require Cairo 1.12, for
+	example GTK+ 3.10 and Pango.  Unfortunately, this version
+	of Cairo triggers a bug in the old Intel driver (2.7.1,
+	installed when <tt>WITH_NEW_XORG</tt> is not set), which causes
+	display artifacts.  A "Call For Testers" mail was posted on the
+	<tt>freebsd-x11</tt> mailing-list (see the links above) to
+	gather information about the behavior on other configurations
+	(new Intel driver and non-Intel drivers).  As of this writing,
+	received reports talk about improvements or, at least, no change
+	noticed.</p>
+
+      <p>To better manage changes such as the <tt>WITH_NEW_XORG</tt> and
+	Cairo 1.12 mentioned above, we asked on freebsd-x11@
+	mailing-list if people are using &os; 8.x on their desktop
+	computers and why they do not upgrade to &os; 9.x or 10.x.
+	So far, we received very few answers to this.</p>
+
+      <p>The Radeon KMS driver in &os; 10.x is now considered
+	stable, especially that integrated GPUs are now properly
+	initialized.  One of the next steps will be to merge this to
+	<tt>stable/9</tt>.</p>
+
+      <p>A "Graphics" wiki article (see links) was created to centralize
+	and coordinate the work being done on both the ports and the
+	kernel.  It contains the following important information:</p>
+
+      <ul>
+	<li>A roadmap of the team.</li>
+	<li>A matrix of supported hardware.</li>
+	<li>Projects status and results.</li>
+      </ul>
+
+      <p>This starting page then points to project- and topic-specific
+	articles where more detailed information is available.</p>
+    </body>
+
+    <help>
+      <task>Report why &os; 8.x is still used on your desktop and
+	why moving to &os; 9.x or 10.x is not an option.</task>
+      <task>Report about the Cairo 1.12 update on your system.</task>
+      <task>See the "Graphics" wiki page for up-to-date information.</task>
+    </help>
+  </project>
 </report>
