Mesa 9.2+ could be enabled on 8.4

Fri Dec 12 18:16:31 UTC 2014

On 08.12.2014 23:07, Piotr Kubaj wrote:
> The reason Mesa 9.2+ cannot work on releases lower than 10.1 is that the
> lack hardware context doesn't play nice with it when using Intel GPU's.
> But Intel GPU drivers are broken on 8.4 anyway, so it shouldn't really
> matter since users are expected to run Vesa, AMD UMS or Nvidia drivers.

You're right. We are working on a FreeBSD 9.x  specific port for the
i915 kernel driver. This will allow us to enable a modern Mesa
everywhere, including 8.x.

-- 
Jean-Sébastien Pédron

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