svn commit: r47588 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status

Fri Oct 16 03:18:08 UTC 2015

Author: bjk
Date: Fri Oct 16 03:18:07 2015
New Revision: 47588
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/47588

Log:
  Some edits to the Graphics Stack report.
  
  Since there are kernel components in base, it can't be in the
  'ports' category.

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
==============================================================================

--- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-07-2015-09.xml	Fri Oct 16 02:49:33 2015	(r47587)
+++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-07-2015-09.xml	Fri Oct 16 03:18:07 2015	(r47588)
@@ -822,63 +822,64 @@
     </help>
   </project>
 
-  <project cat="ports">
-    <title>The Graphics stack on FreeBSD</title>
+  <project cat='proj'>
+    <title>The Graphics Stack on &os;</title>
 
     <contact>
       <person>
 	<name>
-	  <common>FreeBSD Graphics team</common>
+	  <common>&os; 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="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
+      <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.
+	Also the dual version support was removed; there is only one
+	mesa version for all supported &os; 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
+      <p>Another big item that was included in the Mesa port is
+	OpenCL.  There are two GPU-based OpenCL implementations:
+	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
+	Thanks go to Johannes Dieterich, O. Hartmann, 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.
+      <p>Now that Mesa is up-to-date, we can apply the same update
+	procedure to the X.Org server.  It is currently at 1.14,
+	and an update to 1.17 is ready.
 	It should be committed shortly.</p>
 
-      <p>On the kernel side progress has been made with the
+      <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.
+	is unhappy so acceleration does not 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
+	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>
+	Reports will be posted on the blog.
+      </p>
     </body>
 
     <help>
-      <task>See the "Graphics" wiki page for up-to-date
-	information.</task>
+      <task>
+	<p>See the "Graphics" wiki page for up-to-date information.</p>
+      </task>
     </help>
   </project>
 
