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Fork of FreeBSD's base repository to work on graphics-stack-related projects

11 mentions on Hacker News by 6 people: 1 story, 10 comments · first 2016-07-28 · latest 2017-07-26

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  1. …sysctl hw.acpi.lid_switch_state. A more serious problem is that some Thinkpads just don't wake up https://github.com/FreeBSDDesktop/freebsd-base-graphics/issu... :( This was already mentioned here but what's up with people thinking that…
    comment by floatboth · 2017-07-26 · in FreeBSD 11.1 released
  2. Have you tried drm-next? https://github.com/FreeBSDDesktop/freebsd-base-graphics It's an update of the graphics stack to match modern Linux. Apparently amdgpu leaks memory, but radeonkms might work fine.
    comment by floatboth · 2017-07-26 · in FreeBSD 11.1 released
  3. …for Intel's Broadwell / Skylake range is actively being developed in the `drm-next` branch found at https://github.com/FreeBSDDesktop/freebsd-base-graphics/ Current effort is to reduce the difference between "upstream" FreeBSD (being…
    comment by xmj · 2017-03-20 · in Comprehensive and biased comparison of OpenBSD and FreeBSD [pdf]
  4. …API support to FreeBSD to run minimally ported Linux i915 drivers on FreeBSD. That work is here: https://github.com/FreeBSDDesktop/freebsd-base-graphics/comm... It more or less works on new Intel hardware today (same hardware as Linux 4.7,…
    comment by loeg · 2017-03-12 · in Intel to more actively engage with FreeBSD Foundation and make $250K donation
  5. IIRC TrueOS actually integrates https://github.com/FreeBSDDesktop/freebsd-base-graphics so integrated graphics after Haswell should work.
    comment by floatboth · 2017-03-08 · in Ask HN: Anyone moved to PC-BSD (TrueOS) from macOS?
  6. https://github.com/FreeBSDDesktop/freebsd-base-graphics just takes whatever crap is in Linux. Very few people are there to maintain all that, so the focus is on reducing the diff with Linux and improving stability on Intel GPUs.…
    comment by floatboth · 2016-12-10 · in AMD responds to Linux kernel maintainer's rejection of AMDGPU patch
  7. Not in HEAD, but https://github.com/FreeBSDDesktop/freebsd-base-graphics/tree... is stable in my experience
    comment by mpasternacki · 2016-11-24 · in FreeBSD on a MacBook Pro
  8. …New Intel cards (7260, 8260) are supported. Also, you can build the updated graphics drivers from https://github.com/FreeBSDDesktop/freebsd-base-graphics
    comment by floatboth · 2016-11-24 · in FreeBSD on a MacBook Pro
  9. …than all that, it works well. [0]: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=189811 [1]: https://github.com/FreeBSDDesktop/freebsd-base-graphics/wiki
    comment by loeg · 2016-10-10 · in FreeBSD 11.0 Now Available
  10. Matt Macy added support for current Intel and amdgpu graphics out of tree for now https://github.com/FreeBSDDesktop/freebsd-base-graphics/tree... . It is up to Linux 4.7. The graphics stuff is MIT licensed and the linuxkpi is…
    comment by kev009 · 2016-08-14 · in FreeBSD 11.0-RC1 Now Available