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Date:      Tue, 16 Aug 2016 20:52:41 +1000
From:      Kubilay Kocak <koobs@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Matthew Macy <mmacy@nextbsd.org>, "freebsd-current@freebsd.org" <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>
Cc:        "freebsd-x11@freebsd.org" <freebsd-x11@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: gfx-next update: drm-4.8-rc2 tagged in drm-next
Message-ID:  <3f8ae547-1758-37f5-12f9-1ef54a787fcc@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <1569231fc12.1189a20c2251388.8699372849515846410@nextbsd.org>
References:  <1569231fc12.1189a20c2251388.8699372849515846410@nextbsd.org>

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On 16/08/2016 5:12 PM, Matthew Macy wrote:
> As of this moment sys/dev/drm in the drm-next tree is sync with https://github.com/torvalds/linux drivers/gpu/drm (albeit only for the subset of drivers that FreeBSD supports -  i915, radeon, and amdgpu). I feel this is a bit of a milestone as it means that it is possible that in the future graphics support on FreeBSD could proceed in lockstep with Linux. 
> 
> In addition I have IFCed both drm-next-4.6 and drm-next to HEAD as of today.
> 
> Once I'm done working on Kaby Lake support I intend to get radeon and amdgpu to the point where they work as well as i915. Following that we'll need to spend some time resolving general correctness issues.
> 
> -M
> 

All of this is and means a huge deal for our users and us as a project,
thank you to everyone on Team Graphics™ and every one else who has been
involved for their ongoing effort.




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