FreeBSD-head hang when shutdown by ACPI with Intel GPU and new Xorg and SandyBridge

[Lars Engels]

On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 11:26:06AM +0100, David Chisnall wrote:
> On 12 Jul 2013, at 10:01, "Lundberg, Johannes" <johannes at brilliantservice.co.jp> wrote:
> 
> >> As the KMS code does not switch the display mode back, once X with KMS
> > starts, you can't get a console back.
> > 
> > Is there any solution for this in the works?
> 
> Yes.  ray@ is currently being funded by the FreeBSD Foundation to
> improve Newcons compatibility with KMS.  The Newcons framework is
> designed to improve layering in the console.  The machine-dependent
> part simply provides a framebuffer interface, the machine-independent
> part provides the terminal emulator (this also means things like
> unicode in the console will work, as will higher-resolution consoles).
> It's currently used on a few non-x86 platforms, but it wasn't a
> priority for x86 because the PC BIOS text console mostly works and
> people who want a better terminal can just run X.  It's now become a
> priority because of the KMS integration with X.org.  Once this work is
> completed, we will switch to a new X.org by default and will use the
> KMS interface within the kernel for selecting the video mode.  

Is there a rough ETA for this great improvement?
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