Re: Lenovo X1 Carbon or T460s

On Monday, November 14, 2016, Lars Engels <lars.engels_at_0x20.net> wrote:

> On Sun, Nov 13, 2016 at 01:56:45PM -0800, K. Macy wrote:
> > On Saturday, November 12, 2016, Mark Heily <mark_at_heily.com
> <javascript:;>> wrote:
> >
> > > On Fri, Nov 11, 2016 at 11:41 PM, Kevin Oberman <rkoberman_at_gmail.com
> <javascript:;>
> > > <javascript:;>> wrote:
> > >
> > > >
> > > > In regard to video, have you installed and are you using vaapi?
> > > >
> > >
> > > vaapi appears to be preinstalled, however when I run "vainfo" it is
> unable
> > > to find a driver.
> > >
> > > The underlying problem is that Intel Skylake graphics are not fully
> > > supported under FreeBSD yet; see https://wiki.freebsd.org/Graphics
> >
> >
> > Actually don't.
> >
> > Refer to the -X11 and -current archives. I've already discussed this
> > multiple times. UXA and full offload work fine. The problem is trueos is
> > using the modesetting driver and Glamor acceleration doesn't fully work
> yet
> > without artifacts. This is more an issue of ease of development for the
> > configuration tool on trueos than fundamental limitation.
> >
> > The code currently in tree doesn't support anything newer than Haswell.
> > Support for Broadwell, Skylake, and Kaby Lake is out of tree. However,
> that
> > is what trueos is using.
>
> When can we expect your graphics work in HEAD? :)
>

The core kernel changes will probably happen by the end of the year now
that a number of committers have Skylake and Kaby Lake laptops. Once those
are done the drivers themselves can be made in to ports. Adrian, Alexander
Motin, and Conrad have all expressed an interest in moving this along.

-M