svn commit: r42898 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status

Tue Oct 8 16:57:37 UTC 2013

Author: pgj
Date: Tue Oct  8 16:57:36 2013
New Revision: 42898
URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/42898

Log:
  - Add Q3 report on the status of X.Org
  
  Submitted by:	dumbbell

Modified:
  head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2013-07-2013-09.xml

Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2013-07-2013-09.xml
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--- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2013-07-2013-09.xml	Tue Oct  8 16:34:30 2013	(r42897)
+++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2013-07-2013-09.xml	Tue Oct  8 16:57:36 2013	(r42898)
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
 
     <!-- XXX: keep updating the number of entries -->
     <p>Thanks to all the reporters for the excellent work!  This report
-      contains 28 entries and we hope you enjoy reading it.</p>
+      contains 29 entries and we hope you enjoy reading it.</p>
 
     <!-- XXX: set date for the next set of submissions -->
     <p>The deadline for submissions covering between October and
@@ -1439,4 +1439,103 @@
 	repository access file in July, performed by Gavin Atkinson.</p>
     </body>
   </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 Team roadmap (WIP)</url>
+      <url href="https://wiki.freebsd.org/Xorg">Ports-related status</url>
+      <url href="http://trillian.chruetertee.ch/ports/browser/trunk">Ports-related development repository</url>
+      <url href="https://wiki.freebsd.org/AMD_GPU">AMD GPU status</url>
+      <url href="https://github.com/dumbbell/freebsd/tree/kms-drm-update-38">DRM generic code update branch on GitHub</url>
+    </links>
+
+    <body>
+      <p>Mesa 9.1 (libGL and dri) was updated in ports.  This includes
+	experimental ports for libEGL and libgles2: they are
+	dependencies of the experimental ports for Wayland and
+	Weston.</p>
+
+      <p>The <tt>radeonkms</tt> driver was committed to &os;
+	<tt>head</tt> in the end of August and will be part of
+	10.0-RELEASE.  It received several fixes since the initial
+	commit and now it seems quite stable.  However, one missing
+	major feature is support for suspend/resume: the GPU almost
+	always locks up during resume on the test computer.</p>
+
+      <p>Thanks to the update of Mesa and the update of
+	<tt>x11-drivers/xf86-video-ati</tt> to 7.2.0
+	in the ports tree, every pieces are in place to allow users to use recent
+	AMD video cards (up to HD7000, maybe some HD8000).</p>
+
+      <p>The driver will now only receive bug fixes and focus will move
+	on the update of the DRM generic code and the <tt>i915</tt>
+	driver.</p>
+
+      <p>The generic DRM code, shared by the <tt>i915kms</tt> and
+	<tt>radeonkms</tt> video drivers is quite old now.  Work has
+	started to update and sync it with that of Linux 3.8.  This
+	code is available on GitHub.</p>
+
+      <p>The expected benefits are:</p>
+
+      <ul>
+	<li>Fixes in the framebuffer code, which would help the future
+	  deployment of Newcons.</li>
+
+	<li>Preliminary support for minor devices (that is, control vs.
+	  render nodes).</li>
+
+	<li>Support for <tt>setmaster</tt> and <tt>dropmaster</tt>,
+	  which allows to run multiple X sessions.</li>
+      </ul>
+
+      <p>François Tigeot from DragonFly is also working on updates to
+	their DRM code, and the X11 team is planning to share the
+	effort.</p>
+
+      <p>An experimental <tt>devd(8)</tt> backend was added to the
+	<tt>x11-servers/xorg-server</tt> port.  This allows X.Org to use
+	<tt>devd(8)</tt> to detect and configure input devices (for
+	example, keyboards and mices) dynamically.</p>
+
+      <p>Our current wiki articles are used to describe projects and
+	report status.  However, they lack some consistency and links
+	between them.  We started to think about reorganizing them
+	to:</p>
+
+      <ul>
+       <li>Improve the coordination between the ports and the kernel
+	efforts.</li>
+
+       <li>Make the information more accessible.</li>
+      </ul>
+
+      <p>Nothing is visible yet on the wiki.</p>
+    </body>
+
+    <help>
+      <task>Keep tracking Mesa 9.2 or later and <tt>xorg-server</tt>
+	1.14.  Both are currently blocked, but it is good to keep track of
+	what upstream is doing.</task>
+
+      <task>Test and report successes and failures for AMD GPUs.</task>
+
+      <task>Wayland builds now.  Work is being done on Weston to see if
+	there are any run-time issues.  Weston is the reference
+	compositor for Wayland.</task>
+
+      <task>Improve the <tt>devd(8)</tt> backend for
+	<tt>x11-servers/xorg-server</tt>, so the HAL option can be
+	removed completely.</task>
+    </help>
+  </project>
 </report>
