On Fri, Feb 07, 2025 at 08:57:34PM +0200, Povilas Kanapickas wrote: > Hi, > > xf86-video-intel driver is currently cannot be compiled with released > versions of X server. Simple reproduction steps: create Debian Bookworm > container, download module sources and all required dependencies and try > to build. Builds fine on my Gentoo boxes here. What are the actual issues you are seeing? > > Debian Bookworm is pretty much the least exciting configuration > possible. And the fact that xf86-video-intel cannot be compiled there is > not good. > > For almost any other driver this is not a problem, because it is > possible to create a merge request on gitlab.freedesktop.org. Eventually > simple maintenance and build-related merge requests are merged. However > in the case of Intel driver, merge requests are disabled and the > recommended way to submit patches is via intel-gfx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > mailing list. Unfortunately, patches submitted so far are ignored there. I've not seen any patches on the list. Care to point them out? > > Given that the last commit to xf86-video-intel was 22 months ago, I > suspect there's little interest from Intel to spend time maintaining the > project. You must be looking at some stale repo. My last commit was commit ce811e78882d9f31636351dfe65351f4ded52c74 Author: Ville Syrjälä <ville.syrjala@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> AuthorDate: Sat Mar 18 15:45:44 2023 +0200 Commit: Ville Syrjälä <ville.syrjala@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> CommitDate: Tue May 7 00:32:24 2024 +0300 > > What do you think about opening up merge requests on the repository so > that at least the driver can be brought back to compilable state? Does > anyone have other ideas how the current situation could be resolved? I wouldn't want to deal with mrs for any high volume stuff, but since this only gets the occasional fix I guess it could work. -- Ville Syrjälä Intel
