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graphics/intel-backlight: support newer GPUs and propose to take over maintainership on behalf of FreeBSDDesktop
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Authored by jmd on Sep 1 2017, 1:53 AM.
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The FreeBSDDesktop team proposes to maintain the intel-backlight port. This change includes a filed pull request from February 2017 (https://github.com/grembo/intel_backlight_fbsd/pull/3) which is necessary for working backlight control with newer GPUs as now supported through graphics/drm-next-kmod.

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poudriere tested on amd64, i386 CURRENT, 10.3, 11.0 . Run tested by Johannes Lundberg and Pete Wright.

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Thanks for taking over, I don't have any recent hardware or the time to maintain/test this myself at the moment.

This revision is now accepted and ready to land.Sep 13 2017, 12:04 PM
This revision was automatically updated to reflect the committed changes.