Plan for updating xorg

Niclas Zeising zeising at freebsd.org
Fri Feb 1 16:09:14 UTC 2013


On 02/01/13 17:04, Warren Block wrote:
> On Fri, 1 Feb 2013, Niclas Zeising wrote:
> 
>> Hi!
>> A little while ago I posted a plan for how to progress with committing
>> what is in the xorg development repo to the regular ports tree.  The
>> plan can be found on the wiki, https://wiki.freebsd.org/Xorg .  Please
>> read it and let me know if you have any objections, or if something is
>> unclear or left out.  I hope to start with the first item on the list
>> during the weekend, if no objections arise.
> 
> Does this eliminate or at least change WITH_NEW_XORG to use a value? The
> Todo says "Investigate which graphics cards stop working with new xorg."
> but what "new" means there is unclear.  "New" is relative, while version
> numbers are absolute.

New refers to the version that is not legacy xorg.  We will keep legacy
xorg (xserver 1.7 and friends), and update the  new distribution.
-- 
Niclas Zeising

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