[Call for testers] DRM device-independent code update to Linux 3.8

[Koop Mast]

On 18-2-2015 1:09, Lundberg, Johannes wrote:
> Hi
>
> Good job! Will do some testing!  As for the i915 driver, what versions are
> supported?  Up until and including HD4000 Gen7 Ivy bridge?
Correct.

> --
> Johannes Lundberg
> BRILLIANTSERVICE CO., LTD.
>
> On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 8:45 AM, Jean-Sébastien Pédron <dumbbell at freebsd.org
>> wrote:
>> Hi!
>>
>> An update to the DRM subsystem, not including the drivers, is ready for
>> wider testing!
>>
>> The patch against HEAD is here:
>> https://people.freebsd.org/~dumbbell/graphics/drm-update-38.f.patch
>>
>> I'm interested in success/failure reports for amd64, powerpc and
>> powerpc64 users, for i915 and Radeon GPUs. I already know there is a
>> build issue on i386, please wait for the next patch if you are in this
>> case.
>>
>> The changes brought by this patch are explained in a blog post:
>> http://blogs.freebsdish.org/graphics/2015/02/18/testing-the-drm-update/
>>
>> This is working well for some Radeon users for more than a year.
>> However, it only started to work with i915 a month ago, when the i915
>> refresh was committed.
>>
>> Try your day-to-day applications, try suspend/resume, try all output
>> connectors, try OpenGL stuff, try backlight controls, everything :)
>>
>> Thank you!
>>
>> --
>> Jean-Sébastien Pédron
>>
>>