Hi Michal, On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 5:10 PM, Michal Suchanek <[email protected]> wrote: > On 17 February 2015 at 23:19, Julian Calaby <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi Luc, >> >> On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 1:49 AM, Luc Verhaegen <[email protected]> wrote: >>> On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 03:46:34PM +0100, Koen Kooi wrote: >>>> >>>> How's that DRM driver doing, any code yet? >>> >>> At some point. But at least i am not the one whining about it all the >>> time. I will make noise when it's there. >> >> Is this something people could help you with? >> > > No. It's something that happens behind closed door and nothing is > released until it's done.
To be quite honest, I was expecting this response. I was hoping for a "I'm stuck on $THING, but there's horribly broken code here if you want to hack on it" from Luc, but given recent history, I'm not surprised by the (lack of) response. > You can, of course, start your own kms driver. Which would be a waste > of effort since one is already worked on. And which will be likely > ridiculed by Luc because he as the veteran KMS developer who even > invented the thing knows best how it's done. I know nothing about GPU / framebuffer / KMS programming, but I have a A31s tablet and A10 tablet which I'd be more than happy to hack as required to test KMS drivers. I'm sure I'm not the only one who'd be willing to test stuff. > Luc might be a brilliant developer but his attitude can be described > as less then welcoming to new contributors Or even discouraging > contribution to the parts of sunxi project he has stepped up to > develop or maintain. In my experience, Luc is a rather good developer with more GPU programming experience than I could dream of having. That said, his attitude towards people reeks of being repeatedly burnt by idiots and other people who would waste his time over things he considers to be trivial to the point of almost being surprised by good contributions. I have the same problem at times. IMHO he commits the cardinal sin of open source programming which is working on something in private without a good explanation. Maybe this is legacy from working on closed source stuff before, but I really don't know. Personally, I'd be happy with a status report every so often, but maybe I'm on the wrong mailing list for that. Thanks, -- Julian Calaby Email: [email protected] Profile: http://www.google.com/profiles/julian.calaby/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "linux-sunxi" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
