This update brings few features:
o Support for the setmaster/dropmaster ioctls. For instance, they
are used to run multiple X servers simultaneously.
o Support for minor devices. The only user-visible change is a new
entry in /dev/dri but it is useless at the moment. This is a
first step to support render nodes [1].
The main benefit is to greatly reduce the diff with Linux (at the
expense of an unreadable commit diff). Hopefully, next upgrades will be
easier.
No updates were made to the drivers, beside adapting them to API
changes.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_Rendering_Manager#Render_nodes
Tested by: Many people
MFC after: 1 month
Relnotes: yes
commit 4d93914ae3db4a897ead4b. Some related drm infrastructure
changes are imported as needed.
Biggest update is the rewrite of the i915 gem io to more closely
follow Linux model, althought the mechanism used by FreeBSD port is
different.
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 2 month
This change is a bit ugly, but so is the coupling between the i915
driver and syscons. It isn't worth developing a more elegant solution
only to support the legacy syscons console.
stops updating the vertical retrace indicator. The text mouse
renderer in syscons is executing from the callout and spins waiting
for the start of next frame. As result, after the X server finishes,
since the VGA cannot be turned on, but syscons does not know about
this, the clock swi spins forever.
Hack around the problem by disabling wait for the retrace if KMS is
activated.
Diagnosed and tested by: Michiel Boland <boland37@xs4all.nl>
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 2 weeks
works with new generations of GPUs (IronLake, SandyBridge and
supposedly IvyBridge).
The driver is not connected to the build yet.
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 1 week
