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

[Bob Willcox]

On Tue, Sep 20, 2016 at 02:33:01PM -0700, Pete Wright 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

Thanks Pete! I'll give that a try tonight. I think I'm beginning to get it. :)

Bob

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