From owner-freebsd-x11@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 24 14:14:52 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: x11@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3AF65106566C; Tue, 24 Jul 2012 14:14:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from andrnils@gmail.com) Received: from mail-ob0-f182.google.com (mail-ob0-f182.google.com [209.85.214.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E38778FC0C; Tue, 24 Jul 2012 14:14:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: by obbun3 with SMTP id un3so14451912obb.13 for ; Tue, 24 Jul 2012 07:14:51 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=8xYRNkRLfc8TFNTcS6hMpPiMORjDrtoC0fMsfOugok4=; b=UADg/N5ki+C6IJPme3Rt418PxDih6KDf8zNspW55oimkh4JgAevwOIp3NmNmRLd42q X05w43lWbj9uI3AgoiJXigvcWsjuH/7sBzcY4aO3mhED1NBXTcbBFERFyaXD4t/xEa2k SAqBKA8CituIMuVn7vRGFJWdJ9P+MjKoBcEY7KO7jwgVVfYwkQXvwPGA5sWJpo3jMef/ 0AJWinRsFQjK6WG4WqRbswGnzCmwYHgKradKukc7OU2KUKCCo0yoMfvy2hj8kWOpmuK9 WrrLv/GAtUMNh+Ydv2+vd/UZqOZEj7cs6IWVYabl8V/RNsuHRXMydsWHzoG6RBB6aT56 Bg1g== MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.182.88.9 with SMTP id bc9mr27694463obb.4.1343139291375; Tue, 24 Jul 2012 07:14:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.60.32.81 with HTTP; Tue, 24 Jul 2012 07:14:51 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20120628082546.GA46785@FreeBSD.org> References: <20120606131623.GA82148@ithaqua.etoilebsd.net> <20120628042051.GA8166@FreeBSD.org> <20120628080012.GT2337@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua> <20120628082546.GA46785@FreeBSD.org> Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2012 16:14:51 +0200 Message-ID: From: Andreas Nilsson To: Alexey Dokuchaev Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Proposition to make nvidia driver stop overwritting files 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: Tue, 24 Jul 2012 14:14:52 -0000 On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 10:25 AM, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote: > On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 11:00:12AM +0300, Konstantin Belousov wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 04:20:51AM +0000, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote: > > > Thanks for not touching 8.x. This is probably the last known branch > that > > > currently more or less reliably works (the trend was broken > Januaryish). > > > > It seems that this statement makes a carte blanche to claim that current > > situation with nvidia driver port just demonstrates complete lack of > > care from the maintainer, for quite lot a time? > > If by "complete lack of care" you mean having fully working four branches > of > the driver accurately covering broad range of FreeBSD source base, then I'd > have to say yes, but are we talking in the same language? All I was saying > that there is a sad tendency that X+1 branch will less likely work than X > on > the same hardware. > > > > Include-dances in libmap.conf are standard way in freenix world to > solve > > > problems like this one, but right now I see this scenario happening on > a > > > developer's box rather that on user's. User would probably just want > > > single libGL+friends implementation that best suits his/her gfx card. > > > > So you completely ignore/do not care about users of hybrid machines. > > Nice. > > No, just didn't think about it. Good point, thanks for bringing it up. > Now > it's pretty clear that we need more complicated, but more functional > solution. > > ./danfe > What happend with this proposal? I liked the idea with libmap.conf. There is one more reason to have the possibility to have several different drivers installed: Consider someone trying to setup a common base system that will be used on several different types machines. Seems a bit much to require different images just for different drivers. Best regards Andreas