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Date:      Wed, 28 Sep 2016 14:46:08 -0400
From:      Ken Moore <ken@ixsystems.com>
To:        <freebsd-x11@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: gfx-next update: drm-4.8-rc2 tagged in drm-next
Message-ID:  <6f555af1-9974-4e69-b466-bc26beade858@ixsystems.com>
In-Reply-To: <20160928192536.56dd066b@azsupport.com>
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On Wednesday, September 28, 2016 1:25:36 PM EDT, Andrei wrote:
> On Wed, 28 Sep 2016 09:57:28 -0700
> Pete Wright <pete@nomadlogic.org> wrote:
>
>> seriously...relax.  take a deep breath.
>>=20
>> *there* *is* *no* *conspiracy* *here*.
>>=20
>>=20
>> can we get back to work please there are still a shit-ton of bugs
>> that need to be squashed and we need more devs testing/dogfooding
>> this code so it can be gotten into shape so that it can merged back
>> upstream.
> https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthew-macy-5354a9104
>
> Matthew Macy
> Lead Developer at NextBSD
> Current: NextBSD, Kvasir Technologies
>
> "iX Systems and I have been working on NextBSD as a "lab" in an attempt
> to accelerate the adoption of new technologies in FreeBSD and by
> extension widen its prospective user base."
>
> This is not *conspiracy*. They just fuck FreeBSD community and use our
> patches for NextBSD and TrueOS (iX Systems) which is already have modern
> graphics stack. Probably for TrueOS no need any code reviews by someone.
> And LATEST patches already used in production. But for FreeBSD CURRENT
> this patches so buggy? Continue to eat shit.
>
> https://www.trueos.org/more-on-trueos/
> Linux DRM 4.7 (Supports modern Intel graphics - Broadwell, Skylake)
> Linux DRM 4.8 (Supports modern Intel graphics - Kabylake)


TrueOS just pulls in the same patches/branches that mmacy is talking about=20=

here so that devs and users can test it and/or benefit from it *right now*=20=

rather than waiting for it to land in FreeBSD-CURRENT. There is no=20
conspiracy: this is just one way that TrueOS contributes back to the=20
FreeBSD community - by helping to build/test branches which are still=20
considered experimental (for whatever reason) and help to find/report bugs=20=

so that it can get cleaned up and merged into mainline FreeBSD as soon as=20
possible.

So basically, somebody interesting in testing the 4.7/4.8 DRM changes could=20=

install TrueOS rather than have to go through all the trouble of changing=20
branches and rebuilding the kernel/world/packages from the ground up in=20
order to try out this new functionality.=20
--=20
~~ Ken Moore ~~
TrueOS/iXsystems



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