On Tue, Jan 24, 2017 at 09:55:55AM +0100, Matthieu Volat wrote:
> On Tue, 24 Jan 2017 00:55:16 +0100
> Baptiste Daroussin <b...@freebsd.org> wrote:
> 
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > This is a call for testing for newer Xorg along with newer drivers: intel 
> > and
> > ati.
> > 
> > The patch against the head ports: 
> > https://people.freebsd.org/~bapt/newxorg.diff
> > 
> > Note that you would need to rebuild all the xf86-* packages to work with 
> > that
> > newer xorg (hence the bump of the revision)
> > 
> > Do not expect newer gpu supported as this is not the kernel part.
> > 
> > If you experience any issue with intel or radeon driver please try to use 
> > the
> > new modesetting driver provided by xorg directly (note that fedora and 
> > debian
> > recommands to use that new driver instead of the ati/intel one)
> > 
> > To use that driver:
> > 
> > cat /usr/local/etc/xorg.conf.d/modesetting.conf
> > Section "Device"
> >     Identifier "Card0"
> >     Driver "modesetting"
> > EndSection
> > 
> > You need to first load the kms driver eiter via loader.conf or manually via
> > kldload
> > 
> > Best regards,
> > Bapt of behalf of the X11 team
> 
> Looks good with x11/nvidia driver!
> 
> In related matters, I noticed that parts of the stack (libclc) require/use 
> llvm 3.9 while the main body (mesa related ports) still use llvm 3.7. I 
> cherry picked very few changes from mesa 12.0 and 13.0 and was able to build 
> graphics/libEGL and graphics/dri with llvm 3.9 too:
> 
> https://gist.githubusercontent.com/mazhe/e094ac71ae25d40d46fd49510311204e/raw/aca8404c14693a3779d618c3c920a97a7fb620fb/ports_mesa_llvm39.diff
> 
> As a nvidia driver user, I guess most of mesa is shortcutted in my config, 
> but maybe that would be of interest to other people? 

An update of mesa will come just after. just want to go step by step

I already have a diff which goes to 3.9 and upgrade to 13.0

but step by step, first xorg.

Thanks for the report and testing with nvidia

Best regards,
Bapt

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