Re: [Call for testers] DRM device-independent code update to Linux 3.8

From: Koop Mast <kwm_at_rainbow-runner.nl>
Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2015 01:30:23 +0100
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.

-Koop
Received on Tue Feb 17 2015 - 23:30:42 UTC

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