Broadwell support in openbsd/dragonfly bsd
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__orion__ · 2015-08-20 20:27

Francois Tigeot (dragonfly) [committed](http://lists.dragonflybsd.org/
pipermail/users/2015-July/207923.html) changesets bringing full
accelerated support to broadwalk gpu a few weeks ago. However wifi
support [according](http://www.dragonflybsd.org/docs/newhandbook/docs/
newhandbook/BroadwellBoxes/) to Matt Dillon is still underway
(contingent on FreeBSD bringing it first).

On the OpenBSD side, wifi should be supported as of 5.7,
[according](http://www.tedunangst.com/flak/post/Thinkpad-
Carbon-X1-2015) to Ted Unangst. And as far as I could find in the
changelogs , there is no gpu support yet in 5.7 or current (5.8)

I am interested in trying both (the first supporting both wifi and
gpu). Does anyone know about any tentative timeline for the
development of the missing pieces in both OS ?

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phessler · 2015-08-21 07:04

OpenBSD graphics support for broadwell is not yet committed.  Basic
support exists, but not accelerated graphics.  This is a work in
progress, and hopefully will make it in time for 5.9.

Wifi is supported (I helped get it going).

Everything else should be pretty decently supported, though.  (Note:
suspend/resume is wonky, due to missing graphics drivers.  You lose
the screen on suspend, and don't get it back until resume.)

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techsnapp · 2015-12-30 23:04

> This is a work in progress, and hopefully will make it in time for
5.9.

Do you think this will still be the case?

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phessler · 2016-01-03 19:38

Framebuffer support has been committed.Very light acceleration is
around, but not full acceleration.  I can watch movies, but can't
really describe it much more than that.

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techsnapp · 2016-01-03 19:59

Great progress!
Is that from jsg's commit on 21 December?

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phessler · 2016-01-03 20:07

I don't remember events from last year too clearly ;).  Quite
possibly.

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techsnapp · 2016-01-03 20:18

Good plan. Stay forward thinking. ;)

Perhaps I'll use openbsd on my Asus laptop as freebsd is a couple
generations behind on graphics support.