svn commit: r42185 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status

Mon Jul 8 01:58:02 UTC 2013

On Sun, 7 Jul 2013, Gabor Pali wrote:

> Author: pgj
> Date: Sun Jul  7 06:07:53 2013
> New Revision: 42185
> URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/42185
>
> Log:
>  - Add a Q2 report entry on the xorg work
>
>  Submitted by:	zeising
>
> Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2013-04-2013-06.xml
> ==============================================================================
> --- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2013-04-2013-06.xml	Sun Jul  7 05:55:16 2013	(r42184)
> +++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2013-04-2013-06.xml	Sun Jul  7 06:07:53 2013	(r42185)
> @@ -1139,4 +1139,82 @@
> 	for more.</p>
>     </body>
>   </project>
> +
> +  <project cat='ports'>
> +    <title>xorg on &os;</title>
> +
> +    <contact>
> +      <person>
> +	<email>x11 at FreeBSD.org</email>
> +      </person>
> +
> +      <person>
> +	<name>
> +	  <given>Niclas</given>
> +	  <common>Zeising</common>
> +	</name>
> +	<email>zeising at FreeBSD.org</email>
> +      </person>
> +
> +      <person>
> +	<name>
> +	  <given>Koop</given>
> +	  <common>Mast</common>
> +	</name>
> +	<email>kwm at FreeBSD.org</email>
> +      </person>
> +    </contact>
> +
> +    <links>
> +      <url href="http://wiki.freebsd.org/Xorg"/>
> +      <url href="http://trillian.chruetertee.ch/ports/browser/trunk"/>
> +    </links>
> +
> +    <body>
> +      <p>During the beginning of this quarter, work focused on making
> +	the <tt>xorg</tt> update as robust and stable as possible in
> +	preparation for the merge to ports.  As part of this exp-run
> +	were made, to find and resolve regressions and other issues.

"As a part of this, Ports exp-runs were performed to find and resolve 
regressions and other issues."

> +	Once this was completed, <tt>xorg</tt> was updated to version
> +	7.7 on May 25, after more than a year of hard work.</p>
> +
> +      <p>After the update, work immediately shifted to focus on updating
> +	and patching <tt>xorg</tt> client libraries, since numerous
> +	security issues had been identified in those.  Unfortunately,
> +	this took a little longer than anticipated, but all fixes were
> +	comitted eventually.</p>
> +
> +      <p>There has also been work on making the new <tt>xorg</tt>
> +	distribution the default for &os; 9.1 and later.  A patch
> +	was sent out and tested with good results, but this is currently
> +	postponed because switching virtual terminals is not working
> +	with the KMS driver.</p>

I heard a rumor that the FreeBSD Foundation had funded some work for 
fixing VT switching with KMS?  If so, that would be good to mention.

> +      <p>Currently, work is focusing on keeping <tt>xorg</tt> drivers
> +	and libraries up to date.  Instead of making big updates every
> +	year or less, minor updates to some libraries, applications and
> +	drivers happen fairly regularly.  Focus is also starting to
> +	shift towards newer versions of MESA and <tt>xorg-server</tt>,
> +	but this is still very experimental.</p>
> +    </body>
> +
> +    <help>
> +      <task>Continue the porting effort of recent versions of MESA.
> +	This is ongoing work, but integrating this into the development
> +	repo is hard work.  Once this is completed, and KMS support for
> +	ATI is more mature, more testing can be done.</task>
> +
> +      <task>Port Wayland.  The future of graphical environments in open
> +	source operating system seem to be Wayland.  This needs to be

"seems"

> +	ported to &os; so that a wider audience can test it, and so that
> +	it eventually can be integrated into the ports tree, perhaps as
> +	a replacement for the current <tt>xorg</tt>.</task>
> +
> +      <task>Look into replacements for HAL.  HAL is used for
> +	hot-plugging of devices, but it has been long abandoned by Linux.
> +	A replacement, perhaps build on top of devd would be nice to

comma after devd (or use parens for the parenthetical remark).

-Ben

> +	have.  This work should be coordinated with the &os; GNOME and
> +	KDE teams.</task>
> +    </help>
> +  </project>
> </report>
>