From owner-freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Sun Feb 21 18:44:52 2016 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-x11@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD74EAB0786 for ; Sun, 21 Feb 2016 18:44:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jean-sebastien.pedron@dumbbell.fr) Received: from mail.made4.biz (mail.made4.biz [IPv6:2001:41d0:2:c018::1:3]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 7A45B1E9E for ; Sun, 21 Feb 2016 18:44:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jean-sebastien.pedron@dumbbell.fr) Received: from [176.158.145.63] (helo=[192.168.75.14]) by mail.made4.biz with esmtpsa (TLSv1.2:ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:128) (Exim 4.86 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1aXYzy-000MVV-1k for freebsd-x11@freebsd.org; Sun, 21 Feb 2016 19:44:50 +0100 Subject: Re: What are the criteria for contributing to development and testing? To: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org References: From: =?UTF-8?Q?Jean-S=c3=a9bastien_P=c3=a9dron?= X-Enigmail-Draft-Status: N1110 Message-ID: <56CA05A1.1010107@dumbbell.fr> Date: Sun, 21 Feb 2016 19:44:49 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.11; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.5.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: X11 on FreeBSD -- maintaining and support List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 21 Feb 2016 18:44:52 -0000 Le 21/02/2016 14:28, Anil Gulati a écrit : > I take it unless I get a Haswell chip I won't be able to be of any help? Hi! If you want to contribute to the drivers themselves, yeah, getting a Haswell is what what would be immediately helpful. If you have already supported hardware, you can help by testing for regressions and fixing them (for instance, a critical regression is what blocks the i915 update currently). If you're willing to work on other topics, there are several tasks which don't require specific hardware. I listed a few tasks during my presentation at FOSDEM, here is the starting point in the slides: https://rawgit.com/dumbbell/freebsd-writings/master/presentations/fosdem-2016/index.html#/todo-xserver-1 I need to add that list to the wiki with more details about each of them. > I gather Broadwell "had problems" and was a short-lived chipset but > apparently we have to work through Haswell, Broadwell, Skylake in order. Yes, because we follow Linux releases here, so Broadwell came before Skylake and chances are that Broadwell support is more optimized and stable than Skylake. -- Jean-Sébastien Pédron