NEW_XORG and vt(4) in stable branches

Andrea Venturoli ml at netfence.it
Wed Feb 12 19:55:26 UTC 2014


On 02/12/14 20:43, John Baldwin wrote:

> 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?

To me absolutely; I have a couple of 9/10 boxes I'd think(*) about 
upgrading as soon as KMS+VT comes out of head.

(*) Notice "think": I've still not read all the limitaions, pros and 
cons, etc.
Maybe I'll wait for a couple of success reports from others :)


Just my 2c.

  bye & Thanks
	av.


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