From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Mon Oct 26 07:01:36 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B2506A1CC1B; Mon, 26 Oct 2015 07:01:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from grarpamp@gmail.com) Received: from mail-ig0-x235.google.com (mail-ig0-x235.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4001:c05::235]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 7B0091086; Mon, 26 Oct 2015 07:01:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from grarpamp@gmail.com) Received: by igbhv6 with SMTP id hv6so50408691igb.0; Mon, 26 Oct 2015 00:01:35 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:from:date:message-id:subject:to:cc:content-type; bh=9liFvrFjVc/nIIdHKs+sjHi5KsSQpVMw5CTzidyUs5k=; b=dW2iKUnWqNMFb5U8YdSxzdaSWVZuUyVdIioULiJb7g/guTDGVHTaNrHl+e2MetGcyh 46zuOu5X/8dz7brJBFvcISVzIqwqfwiIluFPYpSzzovuEVifSYSRTdduMmrwszeqsrie Nx1jsw/DSnaxMbnT5bRyi6cOCVCwl4QnNHZWdgww5cZIDmoIso5wEqWkOVNnby3RCn3A SUl+bvgK+s1oERbJLOqKBUPYUvaH/6OMma3qxX4r4NBZ3I/oXFs9q7/8cGN0M/Ep1pgd ox84zkdWiFTPm+hb0mSQWpsj3Edln+fmA6PfxCiGA6IQIWIHI7EhKBjfHpaJRCJxPifT +njQ== X-Received: by 10.50.27.102 with SMTP id s6mr16133094igg.23.1445842895442; Mon, 26 Oct 2015 00:01:35 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.36.137.197 with HTTP; Mon, 26 Oct 2015 00:01:16 -0700 (PDT) From: grarpamp Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2015 03:01:16 -0400 Message-ID: Subject: x11: Prospects for Intel SkyLake IGP? To: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2015 07:01:36 -0000 Noting that Haswell has been out for three years and FreeBSD is just now getting alpha support for its on die graphics (cool :)... what are the prospects for SkyLake, whether 2d / 3d, and in what possible timeframes? How far do the recent imports / porting from Linux and any new native FreeBSD code that were used to support Haswell translate towards SkyLake? What is Linux's current status on SkyLake? How are SkyLake's supposed firmware blobs expected to be handled within FreeBSD? Is Intel's documentation sufficient? Is the FreeBSD Foundation or any other entity in a position or mind to assist with supporting what seems like may be a potentially popular workstation type of graphics hardware? Any other relavant questions to ask / answer? Reference links: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Intel_graphics_processing_units https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_HD_and_Iris_Graphics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haswell_(microarchitecture) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skylake_(microarchitecture) https://wiki.freebsd.org/Graphics https://wiki.freebsd.org/Graphics/Update%20i915%20GPU%20driver%20to%20Linux%203.8 http://blogs.freebsdish.org/graphics/