[talk] FreeBSD Intel KMS/DRM Support

[Pete Wright]

On 05/23/16 07:54 PM, Pete Wright wrote:
> Hey all,
> So Matt Macy on freebsd-x11@ recently posted this call for testing:
>
> https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-x11/2016-May/017560.html
>
> I've been trying to help-out when I can, but it sounds like he'd benefit
> from having more people testing out his code.  He even went as far as
> building a USB image to test out on your laptop.
>
> So if you have an i195 enabled desktop or laptop give it a spin :)
>

quick update - ton's of progress being made on this porting effort.  i'm 
actually writing this from an intel i7 (skylake) system with accelerated 
graphics - so please get in on the fun!

https://github.com/FreeBSDDesktop/freebsd-base-graphics

there is still tons of work to do - especially in getting the intel GPU 
tools suite ported to FreeBSD.  there are lots of regression tests in 
the suite that we'd like to leverage...so hackers welcome.  there have 
to be some University students on summer vacation that want to pad their 
resumes on this list :)

https://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-announce/2016-March/002679.html


cheers,
-pete


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Pete Wright
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