[Intel-gfx] FreeBSD i915 driver update

[K. Macy]

On Tuesday, May 17, 2016, Jani Nikula <jani.nikula at linux.intel.com> wrote:

> On Fri, 13 May 2016, "K. Macy" <kmacy at freebsd.org <javascript:;>> wrote:
> > That would be much appreciated. I have the diff with upstream down to
> > ~450 lines, so there likely isn't a whole lot that needs to change.
> > However, there may be small things that are easier to do in the driver
> > than in the linuxkpi.
>
> Incidentally, there's some related discussion going on in dri-devel [1],
> perhaps you'd like to chime in?
>
> BR,
> Jani.
>
> [1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.video.dri.devel/153947
>
>
>
 Thanks. Will do in the morning. I plan on keeping drm, i915, et al. as
ports  - graphics moves faster than FreeBSD releases. Thus, it should be
easier to do sane things with the headers without being tied to kernel
source layout.

I know it's old hat to you all, but I'm happy to report that the 4.6 i915
driver works on FreeBSD on skylake with at least basic 3D hw acceleration.
When one is coming from being 39 months behind to the latest driver, little
things like that are exciting.

Cheers.

-M

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> Jani Nikula, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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