DragonFly 5.6 released!

DragonFly 5.6.0 has been released.  This version brings an improved virtual memory system, updates to radeon and ttm, and performance improvements for HAMMER2.  Matthew Dillon did some informal testing of the VM improvements, and posted results to the users@ list. My users@ post has the usual details on upgrading (pay no attention to my 5.4 typo), …

DragonFly 5 release candidate

I tagged DragonFly 5.0 (commit message list in that link) over the weekend, and there’s a 5.0 release candidate for download.  It’s RC2 because the recent Radeon changes had to be taken out.

Video updates to test

Do you have a DragonFly system with a Radeon or i915 video card?  There’s updates for the drivers associated with either; you can help out and test them.

DragonFly as a desktop

There’s been so much work in DragonFly recently that makes a desktop easier (i915 support, dports, and so on), that I decided to resurrect an older Dell machine and use it as my desktop. The Dell that I’m using is a leftover from someone else’s workplace; it’s 7 years old, and has “only” 4G of …

Got an r600-based video card?

That would be a recent ATI card, though I don’t know exactly which model name.  Samuel Greear has imported David Shao’s DRM work, originally for Summer of Code, last year.  Most newer Radeons should work (?).

Small porting projects

Simon ‘corecode’ Schubert suggests two projects available for a taker: updating Radeon DRM support, or updating the linux syscall support, both of which have existing code from which to start.

NVIDIA, and 3D in general

Since DragonFly has been diverging from the FreeBSD 4 model, and because NVIDIA no longer produces a FreeBSD 4 X11 driver, there is no 3D acceleration for NVIDIA chipset video cards under DragonFly. It’s frustrating, though there are efforts to deal with this. Looking at the latest version of xorg, there is mention in a …

DRI testers wanted

Simon ‘corecode’ Schubert is looking for people willing to test his DRM/DRI changes; if you’ve got a 3D card (ATI Radeon, Matrox, etc.), contact him for instructions on testing.