Re: Intel Haswell support - Any updates?

From: Lundberg, Johannes <johannes_at_brilliantservice.co.jp>
Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2015 18:55:10 +0900
Looking at those pages it seems like development has basically been
standing still for the last couple of years.

DragonFlyBSD claims to have support for Haswell, maybe it can work as a
stand-in while waiting for FreeBSD if you need the GPU for development or
something..


On Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at 6:41 PM, Andreas Nilsson <andrnils_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> I guess interested parties could keep an eye on
> https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-base-graphics/tree/drm-i915-update-38

> and https://wiki.freebsd.org/Graphics

>
> Best regards
> Andreas
>
> On Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at 11:20 AM, Lundberg, Johannes <
> johannes_at_brilliantservice.co.jp> wrote:
>
>> I am wondering the same.. I am sure the very few developers we have are
>> working as much as they can on this.
>>
>> However, the lack of support for the most common hardware since three
>> years
>> back is, I believe, preventing many new users, beginners as well as
>> professionals, from coming to FreeBSD, and I hope the foundation would
>> pour
>> some money into this to speed up the development...
>>
>> Making it possible to use Wayland on FreeBSD would open up for a whole new
>> category on devices (mobile, IVI, etc) where many people are now wondering
>> whether to go Linux, Android or something else.. FreeBSD has the license
>> and the stability making it very attractive, all that's missing is a
>> modern
>> graphics stack..
>>
>> If I had the skills or resources I would pitch in but currently I don't so
>> all I can do is complain to the foundation.
>>
>> I would love to see FreeBSD become the de facto OS in these new areas and
>> it feels like it could be within reach... Or maybe my feeling is way off,
>> correct me if I'm wrong :)
>>
>> Sorry for the rant...
>>
>> Johannes
>>
>> On Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at 5:00 PM, Anders Bolt-Evensen <
>> andersbo87_at_icloud.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> > Hello!
>> >
>> > I'm just curious about how Intel Haswell GPU support in FreeBSD is
>> coming
>> > along?
>> > What's the ETA of when the driver can be tested?
>> >
>> > Anders
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