svn commit: r42185 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status
Gabor Pali
pgj at FreeBSD.org
Sun Jul 7 06:07:54 UTC 2013
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
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)
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
<!-- XXX: keep updating the number of entries -->
<p>Thanks to all the reporters for the excellent work! This report
- contains 20 entries and we hope you enjoy reading it.</p>
+ contains 21 entries and we hope you enjoy reading it.</p>
<!-- XXX: set date for the next set of submissions -->
<p>The deadline for submissions covering between July and September 2013
@@ -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.
+ 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>
+
+ <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
+ 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
+ have. This work should be coordinated with the &os; GNOME and
+ KDE teams.</task>
+ </help>
+ </project>
</report>
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