Update 2 the state of drm-next-4.6 and next steps

[Alexander Mishurov]

It's not urgent for me. The laptop is triple boot: Gentoo, FreeBSD, 
Windows. My environments are almost the same for FreeBSD and Gentoo. And 
I'm going to booze for a half of the summer.

I tried to port drivers by myself some time ago and stuck with the 
'linux kpi vs drm_os_freebsd' problem. I could trace the problem if I 
had time - it looks like it falls out at the moment when the driver is 
trying to get the details of hardware using PCI registers: GTT and so 
forth. But unfortunately I have loads of other priorities at this point 
such as calculus, numerical methods for PDE, Fourier analysis, etc, 
therefore I stuck with old good Linux for now.

I'm mentioning the problems with my hardware merely as a tester.


On 24/05/16 08:39, Matthew Macy wrote:
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>   ---- On Mon, 23 May 2016 22:11:21 -0700 Lundberg, Johannes <johannes at brilliantservice.co.jp> wrote ----
>   > Or this one if you wanna play?
>   > http://www.up-board.org
>   > I got a couple of boards of an early version. Not sure about current shipping time. Might be long since they just started shipping the official release version.
>
> It _looks_ really cool.  However, when I go to check-out it says "Availability: Pre-Order". I'm assuming you two would like to see your hardware supported sooner than the implied "when we get to it."
>
> -M
>
>
>   >
>   > On Monday, May 23, 2016, Matthew Macy <mmacy at nextbsd.org> wrote:
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>   >
>   >
>   >   ---- On Mon, 23 May 2016 15:44:04 -0700 Lundberg, Johannes <johannes at brilliantservice.co.jp> wrote ----
>   >   > Exactly the same for me but last line is
>   >   >
>   >   > i915 device info: gen=8, pciid=0x22b0 rev=0x00 flags=need_gfx_hws,is_cherryview,has_hotplug,
>   >   >
>   >   >
>   >   > On Mon, May 23, 2016 at 3:39 PM, Matthew Macy <mmacy at nextbsd.org> wrote:
>   >   >
>   >   >   ---- On Mon, 23 May 2016 15:20:52 -0700 Alexander Mishurov <alexander.m.mishurov at gmail.com> wrote ----
>   >   >   > This is the output of a kldloading the latest commit. Nothing changed
>   >   >   > from user's point of view, just couple of lines from the previous output
>   >   >   > disappeared.
>   >   >   >nfo] i915 device
>   >   >   > info: gen=7, pciid=0x0f31 rev=0x00
>   >   >   > flags=is_mobile,need_gfx_hws,is_valleyview,has_hotplug,
>   >   >
>   >   >  If it doesn't look like I'll be able to obtain an exemplar of this model in the next week or so I will instrument attach in my next update. My apologies.
>   >   >
>   >  Actually one of you is gen7, the other gen8. But both are Atoms. I can get a valleyview refurb for $160 which isn't bad. It looks like the surface 3 is a cherryview and isn't too expensive. Will think about it.
>   >  -M
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