svn commit: r47034 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status

Tue Jul 21 10:52:25 UTC 2015

Author: wblock
Date: Tue Jul 21 10:52:23 2015
New Revision: 47034
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/47034

Log:
  Add Jean-Sébastien Pédron <dumbbell at FreeBSD.org>'s graphics stack
  report.

Modified:
  head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-04-2015-06.xml

Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-04-2015-06.xml
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--- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-04-2015-06.xml	Tue Jul 21 10:41:15 2015	(r47033)
+++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-04-2015-06.xml	Tue Jul 21 10:52:23 2015	(r47034)
@@ -3069,4 +3069,66 @@
       </task>
     </help>
   </project>
+
+  <project cat="ports">
+    <title>The Graphics Stack on &os;</title>
+
+    <contact>
+      <person>
+	<name>
+	  <common>FreeBSD Graphics Team</common>
+	</name>
+	<email>freebsd-x11 at FreeBSD.org</email>
+      </person>
+    </contact>
+
+    <links>
+      <url href="https://wiki.freebsd.org/Graphics">Graphics stack
+	roadmap and supported hardware matrix</url>
+      <url href="http://blogs.freebsdish.org/graphics/">Graphics stack
+	team blog</url>
+      <url href="https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-ports-graphics">Ports
+	development tree on GitHub</url>
+    </links>
+
+    <body>
+      <p>Overall, the members of the graphics team were lacking spare
+	time during this quarter.  Thus, only few things could be
+	improved.</p>
+
+      <p>Our ports development tree still holds an update to Mesa 10.6
+	(it was 10.5 in the previous quarterly report) along with many
+	cleanups and bugfixes.  Initially, we planned to commit it in
+	early July, just after FreeBSD 8.4-RELEASE EOL, but this EOL
+	was delayed to the 31st of July.  Therefore, we will send a
+	Call For Testers near the end of July so the update can be
+	committed in early August.  Of course, the update can still be
+	obtained and tested directly from the Ports development tree
+	by using the <tt>mesa-next</tt> branch.</p>
+
+      <p>Several smaller updates to X.Org-related ports were committed
+	to the Ports tree.</p>
+
+      <p>The work on the i915 kernel driver update made no progress
+	during this quarter due to the lack of free time.
+	Fortunately, it can resume in Q3 with the hope to have
+	something ready to test in September 2015.</p>
+
+      <p>The update to the DRM device-independent code was merged to
+	<tt>stable/10</tt>.  This means it will be available in the
+	upcoming &os; 10.2-RELEASE.</p>
+
+      <p>Recently, the website hosting our blog has been down
+	frequently.  It is again the case at the time of this
+	writing).  We could export the data the last time it was up,
+	so we will probably move to another system.  Of course, the
+	URL will change as well.</p>
+    </body>
+
+    <help>
+      <task>
+	<p>See the Graphics wiki page for up-to-date information.</p>
+      </task>
+    </help>
+  </project>
 </report>
