xorg ports roadmap?

[Robert Noland]

On Thu, 2009-11-12 at 10:01 +0100, Pierre Guinoiseau wrote:
> Robert Noland wrote:
> > On Tue, 2009-11-10 at 00:18 +0000, b. f. wrote:
> >> What plans are there, if any, for an xorg update in Ports after 8.0 is
> >> released?  What versions of the key xorg ports will be included in
> >> such an update?  Are there any patches available, or a repository with
> >> public access, as in the past?  Is rnoland@ the only person working on
> >> this?
> > 
> > AFAIK, yes...  I'm intending to update to at least basic set of 7.5
> > ports.  There are some issues that need to be resolved though.  We can't
> > update the Intel driver without losing drm support and the current
> > driver doesn't build against Xserver 1.7.1.  This is probably not a
> > major patch-up job, but I haven't looked at it in detail yet.
> 
> About this Intel driver problem, is there any GEM/KMS implementation
> currently planned for the FreeBSD kernel ?

I have WIP branches for GEM and TTM. I haven't done anything towards KMS
yet.  Both GEM and TTM are non-trivial ports though and my current work
queue, I don't have an ETA on having anything functional.

robert.

> The other
> > main issue is that updating libdrm will break nouveau support and I
> > haven't decided what to do about that yet.
> > 
> > I'm happy to have help as my TODO list is quite lengthy and so it tends
> > to be more a question of what I feel like working on on any given day.
> > We just need to figure out how to effectively coordinate multiple
> > peoples efforts.
> > 
> > I have many of the ports updated in my cvs tree, but a full review of
> > currently shipping versions needs to be done, as well as resolve the
> > issues mentioned above.
> > 
> > robert.
> > 
> >> Regards,
> >>                b.
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Robert Noland <rnoland at FreeBSD.org>
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