Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2019 08:38:22 -0800 From: Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> To: Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@freebsd.org> Cc: "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd-rwg@pdx.rh.cn85.dnsmgr.net>, Niclas Zeising <zeising@freebsd.org>, owner-freebsd-current@freebsd.org, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, Stefan Blachmann <sblachmann@gmail.com>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Vladimir Kondratyev <vladimir@kondratyev.su> Subject: Re: What is evdev and autoloading? Message-ID: <20190218163822.GA2912@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <20190218155656.2mefeqixly6h25us@ivaldir.net> References: <7b25c1bf-5648-cd52-544b-828538a742d9@freebsd.org> <201902181512.x1IFCOwm005711@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net> <20190218155656.2mefeqixly6h25us@ivaldir.net>
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On Mon, Feb 18, 2019 at 04:56:57PM +0100, Baptiste Daroussin wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 18, 2019 at 07:12:24AM -0800, Rodney W. Grimes wrote:
> >
> > Sadly your execution on that seems to be missing the mark,
> > telling people they have to go get a port now to get drm working
> > because it could not be maintained in base, and then telling them,
> > oh, you need this new code in base so that it is so much easier
> > to use graphical stuff this way.
> >
> > These seem to be conflicting stories.
> >
> You are missing the point, one does not evolve as fast as the other, meaning
> one can be maintained within usual freebsd lifecycle, the other cannot or it
> becomes very painful.
>
And you seem to be missing the point. I'm now in week two of
trying to figure out why drm-legacy-kmod no longer works, and
suddenly new devices are popping up which are not configured
in my kernel.
I have deleted all ports. I have delete /usr/src and /usr/obj.
I used svn to pull a -r "{2019-01-01}" /usr/src. That builds
and works fine. I then build the minimum ports needs to install
drm-legacy-kmod and xorg. I can fire a fvwm2 desktop. I'm now
up to -r "{2019-01-28}". Yes, bi-section be date. It takes 6-7
hours to rebuild world and kernel and another hour or 2 for the
minimum set of ports.
PS: It still does answer why there isn't a manual page for evdev.
--
steve
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