> On 19 Feb 2019, at 09.15, Oleksandr Tymoshenko <go...@bluezbox.com> wrote: > > Michael Gmelin (gre...@freebsd.org) wrote: >> >> >>>> On 18. Feb 2019, at 23:54, Mark Linimon <lini...@lonesome.com> wrote: >>>> >>>> On Mon, Feb 18, 2019 at 08:50:27AM -0800, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: >>>> I think one serious problem here is the summary dismissal of things >>>> simply on the "5 year old" basis. >>> >>> IIUC the graphics changes are being forced upon FreeBSD by external >>> projects (mainly Linux-based) that are making huge architectural changes >>> that rely more and more on features from newer hardware. >>> >>> If our upstreams aren't willing to do the work to keep from violating >>> POLA on older hardware, IMHO it's an awful lot to ask of our already >>> thinly stretched graphics volunteers to provide it in their stead. >>> >>> w/rt graphics, we are at far more danger of being left further and >>> further behind on modern hardware than we are at risk of losing users >>> on older hardware here. >>> >>> Again all IMHO. >>> >>> disclaimer: I don't use any fancy graphics stuff, so (as the old folks >>> say around here) >> >> I’m very happy (and grateful) that 2018 was the first year in over a decade >> I was able to run FreeBSD on a state of the art laptop with all the features >> that are essential to me working - which included decent touchpad support >> provided through evdev+libinput. > > I want to second this. evdev + libinput was the only option out of > several that provided smooth multitouch experience for Xorg on my 2018 > laptop I really appreciate all the efforts to make it work both on > kernel and ports side. > > -- > gonzo > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-hack...@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
If I may throw my 0,02€, getting a newer graphics stack also gives me (and others) the option to combine many machine functions into one; for example, I can use a single machine as all the usual things like: router+firewall(ipfw), fileserver which can satuate 1Gbps LAN and WAN with NFSv4 and/or SMB, and many other things (those aren’t _that_ new) What is new is that we can now use it as a media center for efficient hardware accelerated playback of h264 and h265, as well as on-the-fly transcoding to stream to mobile devices via libva or vdpau, qsv or similar. _______________________________________________ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
