On 2021-06-04, Alessandro Pistocchi <apukbusin...@gmail.com> wrote: > I have managed to create some exciting, gaming-specific extensions to > the OpenBSD kernel, specifically for an arm64 raspberry pi 4. > > I would like to turn this into a product that people enjoy if possible > and I would be happy to make something that benefits the OpenBSD > community as well somehow. I am enjoying working on OpenBSD and am > genuinely happy to give something back if I can. > > I started a discussion on other channels about this and got quite a > bit of resistance, mainly because I wasn't planning to send diffs for > what I am doing. > > My reasoning for not sending them is that the changes I made could > create security issues for ordinary users, and I think that it would > be a nightmare to maintain only to be able to play smoother games on a > single platform, which in the grand scheme of things is quite small. > > To give you an idea, I am giving exclusive access to 3 out of 4 cpu > cores to a game and I give the game quite a few pages of contiguous > memory for the framebuffer. I give all that back to openbsd when the > game ends. OpenBSD cannot interrupt the game on those 3 cores, it can > only kill the game if needed. That's not stuff that should go into the > official kernel, right?
Seems unlikely. > What I was thinking was more like "I go on and try to make and sell my > product and when I make money I donate a percentage of the profits to > the OpenBSD Foundation". > > Is that acceptable? Or alternatively, what is the "right" way of doing > something like that? I don't think there's any issue with that. The license on the code is deliberately non-restrictive. No requirement to make a donation but that certainly would be a nice thing to do.
