Re: [Intel-gfx] FreeBSD i915 driver update

2016-05-18 Thread K. Macy
On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 1:11 AM, Daniel Vetter wrote: > On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 08:09:27AM -0700, K. Macy wrote: >> > What I don't really like is the old approach of trying to abstract away >> > differences between Linux and *BSD in drmP.h with some screaming macros. &

Re: [Intel-gfx] FreeBSD i915 driver update

2016-05-17 Thread K. Macy
> What I don't really like is the old approach of trying to abstract away > differences between Linux and *BSD in drmP.h with some screaming macros. > Given the imbalance of manpower between Linux and *BSD I think the best > (and probably only really) approach is to have linux compat types and > wr

Re: [Intel-gfx] FreeBSD i915 driver update

2016-05-17 Thread K. Macy
On Tuesday, May 17, 2016, Jani Nikula wrote: > On Fri, 13 May 2016, "K. Macy" > wrote: > > That would be much appreciated. I have the diff with upstream down to > > ~450 lines, so there likely isn't a whole lot that needs to change. > > However, there may b

Re: [Intel-gfx] FreeBSD i915 driver update

2016-05-13 Thread K. Macy
> 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. I a