gfx-next update: drm-4.8-rc2 tagged in drm-next

[Pete Wright]

On 9/20/16 2:25 PM, Bob Willcox wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 20, 2016 at 02:10:23PM -0700, Matthew Macy wrote:
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>>  ---- On Tue, 20 Sep 2016 12:19:43 -0700 Pete Wright <pete at nomadlogic.org> wrote ----
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>>  > On 9/20/16 12:07 PM, Doug Kirk wrote:
>>  > > Hi Bob,
>>  > >
>>  > > To start, you'll want to build and install the kernel from the "drm-next"
>>  > > branch at https://github.com/FreeBSDDesktop/freebsd-base-graphics .
>>  > > Instructions in the FreeBSD handbook for building/installing.
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>> No. drm-next tracks upstream, but is not guaranteed to work at any particular point in time. Intel users should be using drm-next-4.7.
>
> Hmm, I fear that leaves me with the same noob questions then. Where do I
> start? What do I download? What do I build?
>
> I would really like to try this on my NUC but I'm having trouble getting
> started.
>

hey there Bob - sounds like the wiki may need a bit refactoring to make 
it more intuitive.  I'll try to take a stab at that tonight.

the tl;dr version is:

- checkout this branch:
git clone https://github.com/FreeBSDDesktop/freebsd-base-graphics.git -b 
drm-next-4.7


- compile the world+kernel of this checkout.  the normal process of 
building the freebsd world from source works in this checkout.


- once you are running the appropriate world+kernel configure this new 
pkg repository (I put this in a file named 
/usr/local/pkg/repo/FreeBSD-ports.repo for example):

FreeBSD-ports: {
   url: 
"http://www.bsddesktop.com/images/120amd64-ports-graphics-xserver-mesa-next/"
   enabled: yes
}

- install appropriate Xorg Intel Xorg driver and XFCE4 desktop 
environment packages like so:

$ pkg install -r FreeBSD-ports xorg xf86-video-intel xfce


The instructions for building and installing a fresh world from source 
are better documented in the handbook here: 
https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/makeworld.html


Cheers,
-p

-- 
Pete Wright
pete at nomadlogic.org
nomadlogicLA