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

[Kris Moore]

On 09/27/2016 08:45, Jonathan Anderson wrote:
> On 27 Sep 2016, at 3:19, Matthew Macy wrote:
>
>> So long as 99% of people are duly respectful of the fact that this
>> has been a great deal of work and that there is more work that lies
>> ahead we'll be fine.
>
> I, for one, am very grateful for this work and try to help with
> testing where I can. For the past couple of years I've wanted to
> recommend FreeBSD to students and the people who manage our computer
> labs, but the lack of support for contemporary graphics was a real
> blocker while I've Linux uptake grow by leaps and bounds. Thanks to
> Matt's work, I'm now running FreeBSD on a recent notebook rather than
> VMs or old hardware from eBay. i915 on drm-next-4.7 has become quite
> stable and reliable, to the point where I'd recommend it to students
> escaping Windows once it lands in a release (12.0?). FreeBSD grew out
> of a university context, and I think that we need university students
> using it and hacking on it to generate new developers, new companies,
> etc.
>
>
> Jon
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> Jonathan Anderson
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+1

Without his amazing work we'd not be able to run TrueOS (Formerly
PC-BSD) on anything modern except NVIDIA desktops. Now I'm running the
latest gen Lenovo X1 Carbon without needing to use vesa or scfb :)

Keep up the good work!


-- 
Kris Moore
iXsystems
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