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

[Matthew Macy]

 ---- On Tue, 20 Sep 2016 21:59:43 -0700 Jan Mikkelsen <janm at transactionware.com> wrote ---- 
 > Hi, 
 >  
 > > On 20 Sep 2016, at 23:10, Matthew Macy <mmacy at nextbsd.org> 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. 
 > >  
 >  
 > That’s useful to know — We have been using drm-next, running on Celeron J1900 systems with Bay Trail. 

If it works for you, feel free to use it. The bleeding edge amdgpu users use drm-next. However, I find that it invariably locks up on me within an hour on my SKL based Carbon X1. I haven't really had the time / energy to dig in to it.

 > Is the plan for drm-next-4.7 make its way into 11-CURRENT at some point? 

Eventually all the requisite patches to sys will make it in at which point drm-next-<n> will become available as a port allowing one to install the drivers just as one installs xorg and the ddx today. Keeping it as a port will allow us to decouple freebsd releases from graphics developments making it possible to support the latest hardware on near EOL branches.


 > Thanks for the work — It is very useful. 

Thanks.
-M