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

[Doug Kirk]

Pete, if you would also put a note in about loading the i915kms driver in
rc.conf, that'd tie a nice bow around it.

Cheers!

On Tue, Sep 20, 2016 at 4:33 PM Pete Wright <pete at nomadlogic.org> wrote:

>
>
> On 9/20/16 2:25 PM, Bob Willcox wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 20, 2016 at 02:10:23PM -0700, Matthew Macy wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>  ---- On Tue, 20 Sep 2016 12:19:43 -0700 Pete Wright <
> pete at nomadlogic.org> wrote ----
> >>  >
> >>  >
> >>  > 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.
> >>
> >> 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
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