Some of you may be aware of the recent developments in current that
have brought us Intel KMS Support. With this we get proper
accellerated X on current and future Intel graphics hardware. There
are a few other nice side benefits to this work:
- We gain the ability to use the kernel debugger and get debugging
information when the system panics when you are in X windows.
- This also provides support for modern graphics outputs like HDMI
and DisplayPort.
Work on this was largely done by Jonathan Gray (jsg@), and was
supported by a generous sponsorship from M:Tier
(http://www.mtier.org), and by funds from the OpenBSD Foundation. We
would especially like to thank M:Tier at this time for that support.
We would like to extend this work to support the ATI/AMD Radeon
graphics hardware. To this end the Foundation as well as M:Tier have
comitted to support Jonathan to continue the work done for Intel and
extend it to the Radeon platform. Jonathan has started this work and
basic KMS support is already working - however there is still a lot to
do.
At of this time the Foundation lacks sufficient funds to follow this
work through to completion. To that end, we are actively looking for a
company or companies that could commit to supporting these efforts so
that Radeon KMS support may be completed. We are looking for a total
sponsorship goal of approximately $40,000. If you or your company can
help with these efforts, please contact the OpenBSD Foundation
(http://www.openbsdfoundation.org). We can either accept your
donations directly or make other arrangements.
Thank you,
-Bob
