svn commit: r48577 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status

Tue Apr 12 21:05:11 UTC 2016

Author: wblock
Date: Tue Apr 12 21:05:09 2016
New Revision: 48577
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/48577

Log:
  Add report from the Graphics team (submitted by Jean-Sébastien Pédron
  <dumbbell at FreeBSD.org>).

Modified:
  head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2016-01-2016-03.xml

Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2016-01-2016-03.xml
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--- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2016-01-2016-03.xml	Tue Apr 12 20:59:43 2016	(r48576)
+++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2016-01-2016-03.xml	Tue Apr 12 21:05:09 2016	(r48577)
@@ -277,4 +277,62 @@
       </task>
     </help>
   </project>
+
+  <project cat="proj">
+    <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="https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-ports-graphics">Ports development tree on GitHub</url>
+      <url href="https://fosdem.org/2016/schedule/event/freebsd_graphic_stack/">FreeBSD Graphics Team at FOSDEM 2016</url>
+      <url href="https://wiki.freebsd.org/SummerOfCodeIdeas#Devices_management:_link_.2Fdev_entries_to_sysctl_nodes">GSoC 2016: link /dev entries to sysctl nodes</url>
+      <url href="https://wiki.freebsd.org/SummerOfCodeIdeas#Devices_management:_redesign_and_rewrite_libdevq">GSoC 2016: redesign libdevq</url>
+    </links>
+
+    <body>
+      <p>The major news for this quarter is the update of the i915
+	driver in the kernel!  The driver now matches Linux 3.8.13, so
+	it includes initial Haswell support. Linux 3.8 is already
+	three years old, but work continues to upgrade DRM further.
+	In particular, the move to <tt>linuxkpi</tt> was started.</p>
+
+      <p>In the Ports tree, Mesa was updated to 11.1.2. The next minor
+	release, 11.2.0, is ready for testing in our development tree.
+	We also updated libclc to 0.2.0.20151006, a library used by
+	Mesa to provide OpenCL support.</p>
+
+      <p>We attended FOSDEM 2016 in Brussels.  Jean-S??bastien P??dron
+	gave a talk to explain the work of the graphics team and show
+	how people can contribute. It was well received and the
+	presentation was followed by interesting discussions.  FOSDEM
+	was also a nice occasion to meet and talk again to the nice
+	"upstream" developers of the graphics stack.</p>
+
+      <p>For the first year, we added two ideas for GSoC 2016: one for
+	a kernel task, one to redesign libdevq.  Six students
+	submitted a proposal for those two ideas, that was unexpected!
+	We now need to decide which one we want to mentor and the
+	choice is difficult.</p>
+
+      <p>The blog is still down.  We started to work on a replacement.
+	We will probably go with a static generated website hosted on
+	GitHub pages.</p>
+    </body>
+
+    <help>
+      <task>
+	<p>See the "Graphics" wiki page for up-to-date
+	  information.</p>
+      </task>
+    </help>
+  </project>
 </report>
