DragonFlyBSD Rebases Its Intel Kernel Graphics Driver Against Linux 4.0

[phoronix]

Phoronix: DragonFlyBSD Rebases Its Intel Kernel Graphics Driver Against Linux 4.0

DragonFlyBSD's Francois Tigeot has done some more great work in allowing their open-source Intel graphics driver to be more featureful and comparable to the Linux i915 kernel DRM driver for which it is based...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-4.0-i915-DRM

[My8th]

Congrats DragonFlyBSD!!

[jayrulez]

At this rate he will be just 1 release behind Linux and from there it will be up to him whether he will want to track the linux development branch w.r.t to intel graphics.

[zuxun]

Xorg and mesa aren't making their drivers cross-platform. It's shameful really. If the drivers for freebsd were part of upstream, dragonfly could just copy the drivers from freebsd.

Edit: On second thought ... xorg and mesa are struggling to develop the drivers. So making them cross-platform would be even harder.