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

[Ken Moore]

On Wednesday, September 28, 2016 1:25:36 PM EDT, Andrei wrote:
> On Wed, 28 Sep 2016 09:57:28 -0700
> Pete Wright <pete at nomadlogic.org> wrote:
>
>> seriously...relax.  take a deep breath.
>> 
>> *there* *is* *no* *conspiracy* *here*.
>> 
>> 
>> can we get back to work please there are still a shit-ton of bugs
>> that need to be squashed and we need more devs testing/dogfooding
>> this code so it can be gotten into shape so that it can merged back
>> upstream.
> https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthew-macy-5354a9104
>
> Matthew Macy
> Lead Developer at NextBSD
> Current: NextBSD, Kvasir Technologies
>
> "iX Systems and I have been working on NextBSD as a "lab" in an attempt
> to accelerate the adoption of new technologies in FreeBSD and by
> extension widen its prospective user base."
>
> This is not *conspiracy*. They just fuck FreeBSD community and use our
> patches for NextBSD and TrueOS (iX Systems) which is already have modern
> graphics stack. Probably for TrueOS no need any code reviews by someone.
> And LATEST patches already used in production. But for FreeBSD CURRENT
> this patches so buggy? Continue to eat shit.
>
> https://www.trueos.org/more-on-trueos/
> Linux DRM 4.7 (Supports modern Intel graphics - Broadwell, Skylake)
> Linux DRM 4.8 (Supports modern Intel graphics - Kabylake)


TrueOS just pulls in the same patches/branches that mmacy is talking about 
here so that devs and users can test it and/or benefit from it *right now* 
rather than waiting for it to land in FreeBSD-CURRENT. There is no 
conspiracy: this is just one way that TrueOS contributes back to the 
FreeBSD community - by helping to build/test branches which are still 
considered experimental (for whatever reason) and help to find/report bugs 
so that it can get cleaned up and merged into mainline FreeBSD as soon as 
possible.

So basically, somebody interesting in testing the 4.7/4.8 DRM changes could 
install TrueOS rather than have to go through all the trouble of changing 
branches and rebuilding the kernel/world/packages from the ground up in 
order to try out this new functionality. 
-- 
~~ Ken Moore ~~
TrueOS/iXsystems