Intel HD 5500 driver port

[Nicolas Martyanoff]

On 2015-03-30 11:39, Johannes Dieterich wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 11:33 AM, Nicolas Martyanoff <khaelin at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have trouble finding info about support for the Intel HD 5500 graphic chip
> > (used on broadwell platforms such as new Thinkpads) on FreeBSD. On Linux, it
> > seems to be supported by the Intel driver Since June 2014¹.
> >
> > Is there a port in progress, or some development being done ?
> neither Haswell nor Broadwell iGPUs are currently supported by any
> version of FreeBSD with the intel driver. However, work is underway by
> some developers (kib@, dumbbell@) to make this happen. Please see
> https://wiki.freebsd.org/Graphics for up-to-date status/information of
> all things graphics.
> 
> Depending on your requirements, you can use the vesa driver with
> software rendering in the mean time.

Thank you for the information. I'll try software rendering when I get the
laptop.

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Nicolas Martyanoff
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khaelin at gmail.com