svn commit: r47576 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status

Thu Oct 15 21:46:54 UTC 2015

Author: emaste (src committer)
Date: Thu Oct 15 21:46:52 2015
New Revision: 47576
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/47576

Log:
  Add graphics update from dumbbell@

Modified:
  head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-07-2015-09.xml

Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-07-2015-09.xml
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--- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-07-2015-09.xml	Thu Oct 15 21:14:56 2015	(r47575)
+++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-07-2015-09.xml	Thu Oct 15 21:46:52 2015	(r47576)
@@ -822,6 +822,66 @@
     </help>
   </project>
 
+  <project cat="ports">
+    <title>The Graphics stack on FreeBSD</title>
+
+    <contact>
+      <person>
+	<name>
+	  <common>FreeBSD Graphics team</common>
+	</name>
+	<email>freebsd-x11 at FreeBSD.org</email>
+      </person>
+    </contact>
+
+    <links>
+      <url href="https://wiki.freebsd.org/Graphics">Graphics stack roadmap and supported hardware matrix</url>
+      <url href="http://blogs.freebsdish.org/graphics/">Graphics stack team blog</url>
+      <url href="https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-ports-graphics">Ports development tree on GitHub</url>
+    </links>
+
+    <body>
+      <p>The Mesa ports were updated to 10.6.8. At the same time the
+	ports received a major overhaul to make sure all ports are
+	correctly configured.
+	Also the dual version support was removed, there is only one
+	mesa version for all supported FreeBSD versions.
+	The libosmesa port was merged into the Mesa framework.</p>
+
+      <p>Another big item that was included in the Mesa port was
+	OpenCL.  There are two GPU based OpenCL implimentations
+	namely:
+	lang/clover for supported Radeon cards and
+	lang/beignet for supported Intel cards (currently only
+	Ivybridge).
+	Thanks go to Johannes Dieterich, O. Hartman, and Koop Mast
+	for making this happen.</p>
+
+      <p>Now that Mesa is up-to-date, we can do the same with the
+	X.Org server.
+	Currently at 1.14, an update to 1.17 is ready.
+	It should be committed shortly.</p>
+
+      <p>On the kernel side progress has been made with the
+	i915 update.  The driver is able to attach.
+	There are some reports that the X.Org server starts, but Mesa
+	is unhappy so acceleration doesn't work yet.
+	If you want to test, instructions will be posted on the wiki,
+	in the i915 update article (see links).
+	At this stage, we can only accept patches though, we won't be
+	able to provide support.</p>
+
+      <p>We attended two conferences: XDC 2015 in Toronto and
+	EuroBSDcon 2015 in Stockholm.
+	Reports will be posted on the blog.</p>
+    </body>
+
+    <help>
+      <task>See the "Graphics" wiki page for up-to-date
+	information.</task>
+    </help>
+  </project>
+
   <project cat='misc'>
     <title>The FreeBSD Foundation</title>
 
