On Fri, 13 May 2016, Scott Long <scottl@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Jean-Sébastien and other developers have been discussing a new approach > for post-3.8.13 updates. Instead of maintaining a large set of changes, > the plan is to keep the driver as close as possible to the upstream Linux > version, and use straightforward shims to adapt to interfaces provided by > FreeBSD where possible. FWIW, I think this is likely the only viable option. The i915 driver is a fast moving target, and I have witnessed the struggles of full time paid developers backporting and forward porting drm and i915 features from Linux kernel version to another. It is not a trivial task. Last I checked, the Linux driver backports project has also given up backporting latest drm drivers to stable kernel versions. I don't have any FreeBSD experience and I don't know what kind of team of developers you have, but it is my educated guess that you'll have plenty of more productive things to do than trying to maintain a significant amount of delta with upstream while also trying to stay up-to-date. > Our ultimate goal is to align closely with the Linux graphics > development community and collaborate with Intel, ATI, and others on > keeping FreeBSD up to date in their product development efforts. The focus and priority of the i915 driver is obviously Linux, but I don't see us rejecting patches that help FreeBSD if the patches generally make sense and don't interfere with the main priority. Good luck with your efforts! BR, Jani. -- Jani Nikula, Intel Open Source Technology Center _______________________________________________ Intel-gfx mailing list Intel-gfx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/intel-gfx
