<HTML><BODY>Hi Michael,<br><br>thanks for your nice email!<br><br>Well, Skylake is too new for these DRM/KMS backport bits as you know, sigh.<br>To get them supported I in Oracle's position would follow the FreeBSD linuxkpi approach: <a href="https://wiki.freebsd.org/Use%20linuxkpi%20in%20DRM">https://wiki.freebsd.org/Use%20linuxkpi%20in%20DRM</a> <br><br>That is, in May I wasted already 2 weeks on that for my own pleasure (because before that I had realized after manually merging 40.000 lines [!] only to update the backport from June 2013 to February 2014 level for Broadwell support, that there is no point in that.<br>But to get this FreeBSD DRM/KMS implementation ported to OpenSolaris one persons needs at least 12 to 24 months fulltime if that's enough.<br>And nobody would pay for it (unless you are the lucky one who works at Oracle and gets this paid).<br>This in turn tells me that I definitely won't waste more time on that for the benefit of others who could then simply copy it, given a certain background there and elsewhere.<br>But perhaps Oracle is already working on the same approach, so let's wait and keep fingers crossed that they update their src some day (to pub I mean).<br><br>UEFI; The T.S. FreeBSD bootloader will add this soon to OS/Net.<br>And if he didn't, I could add UEFI functionality based on Grub2 (yes, I worked on this since 2013 till November 2014, and now all of July 2016 with T.S.'s UEFI-advice).<br>For UEFI64 and UEFI32 (on x64) you just have to wait for T.S.'s bits making it into upstream OS/Net.<br><br>As for USB3: The RM src patch is impressive and looks promising.<br>For an instant solution I could write you OFFlist and explain you how you can make the Sol11.x xhci /usba stack functioning on OpenSolaris.<br>This is no problem legally if you have a license to run Oracle Solaris, which in turn is free to private users (for an interim period at least).<br>That's why the OS/Net businesses didn't want to hear anything about it. <br><br>I'm glad to assist in these mentioned areas if you need further specifics.<br><br><br><br>rgds.,<br>%martin<br><br><br><br><blockquote style="border-left:1px solid #0857A6; margin:10px; padding:0 0 0 10px;"><div id=""><div class="js-helper js-readmsg-msg"><div><div id="style_14730842790000000630_BODY">
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I'd like to provide you a success report, but the only system I own
with an Intel GPU is running a Skylake CPU and it also includes UEFI
and USB 3.0.<br>
So, I am awaiting the maturity of those bits as well.<br>
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Perhaps once all 3 of these technologies are delivered with the
release, then more people will be able to test them out.<br><br></div></div></div></div></blockquote></BODY></HTML>