svn commit: r49574 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status

Tue Oct 25 03:36:57 UTC 2016

Author: bjk
Date: Tue Oct 25 03:36:55 2016
New Revision: 49574
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/49574

Log:
  Add Graphic stack entry from kwm

Modified:
  head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2016-07-2016-09.xml

Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2016-07-2016-09.xml
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--- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2016-07-2016-09.xml	Tue Oct 25 03:27:44 2016	(r49573)
+++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2016-07-2016-09.xml	Tue Oct 25 03:36:55 2016	(r49574)
@@ -1555,4 +1555,84 @@
       The FreeBSD Foundation
     </sponsor>
   </project>
+
+  <project cat='proj'>
+    <title>The Graphics Stack on &os;</title>
+
+    <contact>
+      <person>
+	<name>&os; Graphics Team</name>
+	<email>freebsd-x11 at FreeBSD.org</email>
+      </person>
+
+      <person>
+	<name>
+	  <given>Matthew</given>
+	  <common>Macy</common>
+	</name>
+	<email>mmacy at nextbsd.org</email>
+      </person>
+
+      <person>
+	<name>
+	  <given>Johannes</given>
+	  <common>Lundberg</common>
+	</name>
+	<email>yohanesu75 at me.com</email>
+      </person>
+    </contact>
+
+    <links>
+      <url href="https://github.com/&os;Desktop/&os;-base-graphics">GitHub Repository</url>
+      <url href="http://wiki.FreeBSD.org/Graphics">Graphics Stack Roadmap and Supported Hardware Matrix</url>
+      <url href="https://github.com/&os;/&os;-ports-graphics">Ports Development Repository</url>
+      <url href="https://github.com/&os;Desktop/&os;-base-graphics/tree/drm-next-4.7">DRM 4.7 Development Repository</url>
+      <url href="https://wiki.FreeBSD.org/SummerOfCodeIdeas#Devices_management:_link_.2Fdev_entries_to_sysctl_nodes">GSoC 2016: Link <tt>/dev</tt> Entries to Sysctl Nodes</url>
+      <url href="https://wiki.FreeBSD.org/SummerOfCode2016/RethinkLibdevq">GSoC 2016: Redesign libdevq </url>
+      <url href="https://github.com/yohanesu75/&os;-base-graphics/wiki/Wayland-on-&os;">Wayland Notes</url>
+      <url href="http://planet.FreeBSD.org/graphics">Graphics Team Blog</url>
+    </links>
+
+    <body>
+      <p>We are sad to report that both GSoc projects failed.  The
+	<tt>libdevq</tt> project was abandonned as the student
+	disappeared.  The kernel project was incomplete because the
+	student could not work for personal reasons.  He plans to
+	resume work and complete the task, even though GSoC 2016 is
+	finished.</p>
+
+      <p>The X.org server version 1.18.4 together with updates for
+	the <tt>xf86-video-ati</tt> and <tt>xf86-video-intel</tt> DDX
+	drivers are ready for wider testing and a CFT will be sent out
+	shortly.  These updates are required in order to use newer DRM
+	versions.</p>
+
+      <p>The missing functionality from <tt>libdrm</tt> that is
+	needed by the <tt>amdgpu</tt> driver has been added.  These
+	chances will be committed to the ports tree shortly after the
+	xorg-server update.</p>
+
+      <p>DRM from Linux 4.8 was ported to the <tt>drm-next</tt>
+	branch.  This branch should be used for <tt>radeon</tt> and
+	<tt>amdgpu</tt> cards; for <tt>i915</tt> cards the
+	<tt>drm-next-4.7</tt> should be used, due to instabilities in
+	the intel driver in <tt>drm-next</tt> branch.</p>
+
+      <p>Johannes Lundberg has been working on getting the Wayland
+	enviroment up and running on &os;.  The Wayland ports are in
+	a working state except for the Weston compositor.</p>
+
+      <p>The current Weston port (from DragonFlyBSD) might be
+	scrapped and a new port created from scratch based on the
+	upstream source code.  With the use of <tt>libinput</tt>,
+	<tt>libudev-devd</tt>, and <tt>epoll-shim</tt>, the diff will
+	not be very large and will be easier to maintain.</p>
+
+      <p>Patches for <tt>wlc</tt> (another Wayland compositor) are
+	being pushed upstream.  On the TODO list is refactoring the
+	tty code into selectable backends (linux, &os;, etc), as
+	recommended by the author of <tt>wlc</tt>.  For now, it is
+	running on &os; with patches in the ports tree.</p>
+    </body>
+  </project>
 </report>
