Date: Sun, 7 Jul 2013 06:07:54 +0000 (UTC) From: Gabor Pali <pgj@FreeBSD.org> To: doc-committers@freebsd.org, svn-doc-all@freebsd.org, svn-doc-head@freebsd.org Subject: svn commit: r42185 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status Message-ID: <201307070607.r6767sFL068075@svn.freebsd.org>
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Author: pgj Date: Sun Jul 7 06:07:53 2013 New Revision: 42185 URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/42185 Log: - Add a Q2 report entry on the xorg work Submitted by: zeising Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2013-04-2013-06.xml Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2013-04-2013-06.xml ============================================================================== --- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2013-04-2013-06.xml Sun Jul 7 05:55:16 2013 (r42184) +++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2013-04-2013-06.xml Sun Jul 7 06:07:53 2013 (r42185) @@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ <!-- XXX: keep updating the number of entries --> <p>Thanks to all the reporters for the excellent work! This report - contains 20 entries and we hope you enjoy reading it.</p> + contains 21 entries and we hope you enjoy reading it.</p> <!-- XXX: set date for the next set of submissions --> <p>The deadline for submissions covering between July and September 2013 @@ -1139,4 +1139,82 @@ for more.</p> </body> </project> + + <project cat='ports'> + <title>xorg on &os;</title> + + <contact> + <person> + <email>x11@FreeBSD.org</email> + </person> + + <person> + <name> + <given>Niclas</given> + <common>Zeising</common> + </name> + <email>zeising@FreeBSD.org</email> + </person> + + <person> + <name> + <given>Koop</given> + <common>Mast</common> + </name> + <email>kwm@FreeBSD.org</email> + </person> + </contact> + + <links> + <url href="http://wiki.freebsd.org/Xorg"/>; + <url href="http://trillian.chruetertee.ch/ports/browser/trunk"/>; + </links> + + <body> + <p>During the beginning of this quarter, work focused on making + the <tt>xorg</tt> update as robust and stable as possible in + preparation for the merge to ports. As part of this exp-run + were made, to find and resolve regressions and other issues. + Once this was completed, <tt>xorg</tt> was updated to version + 7.7 on May 25, after more than a year of hard work.</p> + + <p>After the update, work immediately shifted to focus on updating + and patching <tt>xorg</tt> client libraries, since numerous + security issues had been identified in those. Unfortunately, + this took a little longer than anticipated, but all fixes were + comitted eventually.</p> + + <p>There has also been work on making the new <tt>xorg</tt> + distribution the default for &os; 9.1 and later. A patch + was sent out and tested with good results, but this is currently + postponed because switching virtual terminals is not working + with the KMS driver.</p> + + <p>Currently, work is focusing on keeping <tt>xorg</tt> drivers + and libraries up to date. Instead of making big updates every + year or less, minor updates to some libraries, applications and + drivers happen fairly regularly. Focus is also starting to + shift towards newer versions of MESA and <tt>xorg-server</tt>, + but this is still very experimental.</p> + </body> + + <help> + <task>Continue the porting effort of recent versions of MESA. + This is ongoing work, but integrating this into the development + repo is hard work. Once this is completed, and KMS support for + ATI is more mature, more testing can be done.</task> + + <task>Port Wayland. The future of graphical environments in open + source operating system seem to be Wayland. This needs to be + ported to &os; so that a wider audience can test it, and so that + it eventually can be integrated into the ports tree, perhaps as + a replacement for the current <tt>xorg</tt>.</task> + + <task>Look into replacements for HAL. HAL is used for + hot-plugging of devices, but it has been long abandoned by Linux. + A replacement, perhaps build on top of devd would be nice to + have. This work should be coordinated with the &os; GNOME and + KDE teams.</task> + </help> + </project> </report>
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