On 18-2-2015 1:21, Shawn Webb wrote: > On Wednesday, February 18, 2015 12:45:36 AM Jean-Sébastien Pédron wrote: >> Hi! >> >> An update to the DRM subsystem, not including the drivers, is ready for >> wider testing! >> >> The patch against HEAD is here: >> https://people.freebsd.org/~dumbbell/graphics/drm-update-38.f.patch >> >> I'm interested in success/failure reports for amd64, powerpc and >> powerpc64 users, for i915 and Radeon GPUs. I already know there is a >> build issue on i386, please wait for the next patch if you are in this case. >> >> The changes brought by this patch are explained in a blog post: >> http://blogs.freebsdish.org/graphics/2015/02/18/testing-the-drm-update/ >> >> This is working well for some Radeon users for more than a year. >> However, it only started to work with i915 a month ago, when the i915 >> refresh was committed. >> >> Try your day-to-day applications, try suspend/resume, try all output >> connectors, try OpenGL stuff, try backlight controls, everything :) >> >> Thank you! > I'll definitely be testing this on my Haswell laptop, running HardenedBSD. I > should have a report back by the end of the week. > > I'm assuming, though, that Haswell won't be working, right? I'll still have to > use the VESA driver. As far as Haswell is concerned, you're mainly looking to > make sure that the patch doesn't actively break anything? > > Thanks, > > Shawn Correct, this is a lets "see if everything still works" CFT. This is just the device independent layer that is getting a update, so no Haswell support. -KoopReceived on Tue Feb 17 2015 - 23:30:42 UTC
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