From owner-freebsd-x11@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 15 18:56:52 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF2A51065675 for ; Fri, 15 Aug 2008 18:56:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from vehemens@verizon.net) Received: from vms042pub.verizon.net (vms042pub.verizon.net [206.46.252.42]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE1F28FC1C for ; Fri, 15 Aug 2008 18:56:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from vehemens@verizon.net) Received: from sam ([71.107.11.239]) by vms042.mailsrvcs.net (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-6.01 (built Apr 3 2006)) with ESMTPA id <0K5N00MT9OMCU0I2@vms042.mailsrvcs.net> for freebsd-x11@freebsd.org; Fri, 15 Aug 2008 13:56:36 -0500 (CDT) Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2008 12:02:11 -0700 From: vehemens In-reply-to: <1218812516.9345.22.camel@squirrel.corp.cox.com> To: Robert Noland Message-id: <200808151202.11520.vehemens@verizon.net> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Content-disposition: inline References: <200808142307.32015.vehemens@verizon.net> <1218812516.9345.22.camel@squirrel.corp.cox.com> User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 Cc: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [CFT] drm updates X-BeenThere: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: X11 on FreeBSD -- maintaining and support List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2008 18:56:53 -0000 On Friday 15 August 2008 08:01:56 am Robert Noland wrote: > On Thu, 2008-08-14 at 23:07 -0700, vehemens wrote: > ... > > On a side note, intel just eliminated any reason for a BSD user to buy > > any of their new hardware. yea?? > > I'm frustrated, but intel has been fairly good about giving up docs and > licensing of code that they write. I don't think that they are actively > trying to alienate us, they are just trying to take advantage of the > latest linux kernel bits and make it easier for them to merge into > linux. I'm not sure that it is going to work out all that well for them > (the linux folks) either though. For now, it's all still up in the air, > so I don't know what will happen with the repo's. As far as gem and > mode-setting go, intel has been working hard to get those features done > for linux, and while I don't forsee them helping us with our code, they > aren't actively working against us either... That was a bit of a dig at intel by me. They have done a log of good work recently. A lot of the GEM code appears to be usable on BSD once you get past the linux parts. Ditto for mode-setting.