Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2018 01:38:29 +0200 From: Oliver Pinter <oliver.pinter@hardenedbsd.org> To: Pete Wright <pete@nomadlogic.org> Cc: Johannes Lundberg <johalun0@gmail.com>, "jmaloney@ixsystems.com" <jmaloney@ixsystems.com>, "deischen@freebsd.org" <deischen@freebsd.org>, Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>, freebsd-current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: [RFC] Deprecation and removal of the drm2 driver Message-ID: <CAPQ4ffuXFCf2GDFw38sdPTg7R=niLdpcMzUkNMQg7r5vJ1Zd3Q@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <df27afa0-73ba-c27d-6df9-af630a277d4e@nomadlogic.org> References: <20180524160234.GD68014@FreeBSD.org> <201805241610.w4OGAAGY041280@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net> <20180530235156.310870d0@thor.intern.walstatt.dynvpn.de> <CAECmPwvFkO6Qc_7kZowCHdSEVQwV12ZomsbTe4=X=sp7pW=7Kg@mail.gmail.com> <20180531101643.GV3789@kib.kiev.ua> <Pine.GSO.4.64.1805311004450.15754@sea.ntplx.net> <CAFvkmYNtVywXoX7wcy0qMzbvh-amcF-PsOXQMQD2L%2B9p%2BZWQJw@mail.gmail.com> <CAECmPwu_y8J3te%2BLKSKfHQdsbs6ktkp0GGwLkkVhQQquN0sMxw@mail.gmail.com> <CAPQ4ffutj8nOmz-A-7criFiO0XXrmqwTUNdS3-1QZLWubEbXRw@mail.gmail.com> <df27afa0-73ba-c27d-6df9-af630a277d4e@nomadlogic.org>
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On Friday, June 1, 2018, Pete Wright <pete@nomadlogic.org> wrote: > > > On 05/31/2018 15:34, Oliver Pinter wrote: > >> On Thursday, May 31, 2018, Johannes Lundberg <johalun0@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> On Thu, May 31, 2018 at 4:34 PM Joe Maloney <jmaloney@ixsystems.com> >>> wrote: >>> >>> I personally wish that more drivers, and firmware were separated from >>>> base. >>>> >>>> >>>> I'm not a committer >>> >> >> >>> If you are not a committer, how and why want to remove drm2 from the >> base >> system? >> > Johannes did not start this threat. A committer, Niclas Zeising, did. > Johannes has stepped up and done a ton of work (along with many others, > some committers and some not) to get modern intel and amd GPU's working > under freebsd. > True. Yes I agree that their work is hard and it's a very big step forward for supporting modern hardwares. And it's required modern desktops, but please don't break the existing ones. This is my only request, probably it was expressed in a harsh way, sorry. > > > this was something that was a gaping hole in freebsd when this work > started a bit over a year ago, and i'm not sure why more committers weren't > embarrassed by this gap nor motivated to chip in. > > regardless - not sure why you'd take his comment out of context :/ the > full quote was: > "I'm not a committer but as I understand there's not pre-commit > integration tests.. If one had that, plus that it would test build kmod > ports against the pre-commit state of head as well, then maybe this would > work." > > not really sure what's controversial about that statement which would > prompt your reply - but i guess people dedicating their spare time to help > create useful things for others shouldn't go unpunished. > > well i guess i broke my promise to ignore this bikeshed :( > > -p > > -- > Pete Wright > pete@nomadlogic.org > @nomadlogicLA > >
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