I can see the x11-drivers/xf86-video-intel-2.7.1* driver in the ports along with x11-servers/xorg-server-1.7.5*. Which "way" they decided to go?For Intel, going beyond the 2.7 DDX driver, doesn't support drm without GEM. The current 2.7.1 driver doesn't build against 1.7.1/2 server. So, either the existing Intel driver has to be fixed to work with the new server, or we import the 2.9 series and lose drm support. Were we to do both, again we have conflicts, but since the drivers are leaf ports, the dependency management isn't such an issue.
SirDice said:
It is especially vital for Linux drm GEM, TTM, KMS code to be ported immediately to the BSDs because developers are in the process of removing userland modesetting code from current graphics drivers. To paraphrase what we have been told by freedesktop.org developers, if we do not port this code, very shortly the BSDs will be left only using the simplest VESA driver at 1024 x 768 resolution with no hardware acceleration.
oliverh said: