Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2017 15:18:43 -0500 From: Bob Willcox <bob@immure.com> To: Pete Wright <pete@nomadlogic.org> Cc: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Status of Intel Broadwell GPU Support?? Message-ID: <20170321201843.GH77624@rancor.immure.com> In-Reply-To: <25c5ecee-b617-a55b-c8f9-cf041b7ecf92@nomadlogic.org> References: <20170321182231.GG77624@rancor.immure.com> <25c5ecee-b617-a55b-c8f9-cf041b7ecf92@nomadlogic.org>
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On Tue, Mar 21, 2017 at 11:29:48AM -0700, Pete Wright wrote: > On 03/21/2017 11:22, Bob Willcox wrote: > > Can someone fill me in on what the current status of support for the Intel > > Broadwell GPUs is? I had been running with the scfb driver on one of my > > systems (Intel NUC with an i7-5557U CPU) up until recently when I had to > > reboot it. I had updated the ports about a week earlier and just yesterday had > > to reboot it due to a power outage here. > > > > I haven't seen much mention/activity regarding the new i915 support for the > > newer Intel GPUs and was hoping that there might be some documentation that I > > could be pointed to so I can understand what all needs to be done to upgrade > > to and run it. > > > > Note that I'm currently running 10.3-stable but would be willing to update to > > something more current if necessary. > > > > Thanks in advance for any info or pointers you can offer! > > Hey there Bob, you may want to take a look at TrueOS which is based on > FreeBSD but they have been aggressively importing new drm code to > support newer Intel GPU's. > > https://www.trueos.org/ > > If you are comfortable tracking and building CURRENT yourself, you can > try the drm-next branch at this github repository: > > https://github.com/FreeBSDDesktop/freebsd-base-graphics > https://github.com/FreeBSDDesktop/freebsd-base-graphics/wiki > > I don't remember if the latest drm-next code is required for Broadwell > CPU's, but this code works well for my on my Skylake system. Both > approaches should allow you to use accelerated GPU graphics on your > system though. > > Cheers, > -pete > > -- > Pete Wright > pete@nomadlogic.org > @nomadlogicLA > Hi Chris, Thanks for the pointers and info. I may look into TrueOS but in the past when I gave a try with PC-BSD I found I missed some important (to me) aspects of FreeBSD. One of them was the ctwm window manager which I have been using on FreeBSD since about '94. Maybe I could run it on TrueOS but the desktop manager that it defaulted to mostly got in my way. I will probably go with the FreeBSDDesktop/freebsd-base-graphics path and see how I fair with that. Wish me luck! Bob -- Bob Willcox | You're dead, Jim. bob@immure.com | -- McCoy, "The Tholian Web", stardate unknown Austin, TX |
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