Hi, An update of the drm/i915 gpu driver to Linux 3.16 is almost ready
It is available in this git branch: http://gitweb.dragonflybsd.org/~ftigeot/dragonfly.git/shortlog/refs/heads/drm_i915_linux_3_16v9 (detailled instructions below) What you can expect: * A critical function has been fixed to handle errors which could previously cause Xorg crashes. * Much improved support for Broadwell GPUs. They should now be fully accelerated. * Various unrelated bug fixes and performance improvements on all GPU generations. This new driver version is currently known to be broken on some Core 2 machines but it will take time to bisect what change caused the regression. The only working Core 2 box I have left is a single Core Celeron, which isn't exactly fast for compiling kernels. Apart from that, the code should work fine on Ivy-Bridge, Haswell, Broadwell and hopefully other recent GPUs. How to test the new branch: * You must use a recent DragonFly 4.3 (-master) system * git remote add leaf git://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/~ftigeot/dragonfly.git * git fetch leaf * git checkout drm_i915_linux_3_16v9 * make kernel && reboot Enjoy! -- Francois Tigeot
