NEW_XORG and vt(4) in stable branches

[John Baldwin]

I just wanted to drop a note to see if everyone is on the same page here.  I 
know that core@ has been discussing the NEW_XORG internally quite a bit, but 
that has all been internal to core@ so far.

Our current feeling is that we would like to not enable NEW_XORG by default 
for the packages for a given src branch until vt(4) has been merged to that 
branch.  We do not think that vt(4) needs to be enabled by default in the 
branch; just having it available as an option as it is in HEAD would be 
sufficient.  Our understanding is that merging vt(4) in its current-ish form 
to stable/10 and stable/9 is quite feasible and not a major nightmare.  We do 
not feel that it is necessary to merge to stable/8 as drm2 isn't merged to 
stable/8 either.  (Our assumption is that stable/8 will just stay with the old 
Xorg and the ports tree will have to support old Xorg until 8.x support in 
ports is EOL'd.)

Does that sound sensible?  Are any of our assumptions above incorrect?

I know that on the Graphics page on the wiki, the x11@ team has a target date 
of enabling NEW_XORG for stable branches (is that 9 and 10?) in March.  Do we 
think vt(4) can be merged to stable/10 and stable/9 before then?

-- 
John Baldwin