CFT: Update to xf86-video-ati 7.5.0

[Miguel Clara]

On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 4:24 PM, Jean-Sébastien Pédron <dumbbell at freebsd.org
> wrote:

> On 31.10.2014 16:53, Miguel Clara wrote:
> > Agreed, but ideally one could change as needed... ofc it will always mean
> > restart Xorg... IFAIK  you can do it in Linux.
>
> Yes, when we grow support for video cards only used to render things,
> you won't have to restart anything.
>
> > On another note, as I've refereed in the other report, my perfect
> scenario
> > for this laptop would be using the intel on host and pass-trough the ati
> to
> > virtualized guest... vbox is not and option and AFAIK bhyve is far from
> > that too, but maybe Xen will be a solution soon :)
>
> I don't know for Xen, but even on Linux, GPU virtualization in KVM isn't
> for tomorrow. Red Hat is working on the subject through the Virgil
> project[1].
>
Just to add some info on this about xen:
http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/Xen_VGA_Passthrough_Tested_Adapters


>
> > thanks for you're time on this btw, please continue the good work
>
> You're welcome :) You helped a lot to diagnose the problem and test the
> patch! An update to xserver 1.14 is almost ready for a CFT. This will
> include the patch you tested.
>
> [1] https://virgil3d.github.io/
>
> --
> Jean-Sébastien Pédron
>
>