Re: Lenovo X1 Carbon or T460s

From: Lars Engels <lars.engels_at_0x20.net>
Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2016 10:57:20 +0100
On Mon, Nov 14, 2016 at 11:25:24AM -0800, K. Macy wrote:
> 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.
> 

Sounds very good, thank you!

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