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. >> > Given the imbalance of ma

Re: [Intel-gfx] FreeBSD i915 driver update

2016-05-18 Thread Daniel Vetter
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. > > Given the imbalance of manpower between Linux and *BSD I think the best > > (and prob

Re: [Intel-gfx] FreeBSD i915 driver update

2016-05-17 Thread randyf
On Tue, 17 May 2016, Daniel Vetter wrote: 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

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 Daniel Vetter
On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 10:34:59AM +0300, Jani Nikula wrote: > On Fri, 13 May 2016, Scott Long 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

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 be small things that are easier to do in

Re: [Intel-gfx] FreeBSD i915 driver update

2016-05-17 Thread Jani Nikula
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 be small things that are easier to do in the driver > than in the linuxkpi. Incidentally, there'

Re: [Intel-gfx] FreeBSD i915 driver update

2016-05-16 Thread Ed Maste
On 13 May 2016 at 03:34, Jani Nikula wrote: > > 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 upstre

Re: [Intel-gfx] FreeBSD i915 driver update

2016-05-13 Thread Jani Nikula
On Thu, 12 May 2016, Scott Long wrote: > I'd like to offer a heads-up on the ongoing work in the FreeBSD project > to update to a contemporary version of the i915 driver. I inadvertently let this through the moderation while Scott had reposted as subscriber. Please ignore this one and keep the co

[Intel-gfx] FreeBSD i915 driver update

2016-05-13 Thread Scott Long
Hello intel-gfx, I'd like to offer a heads-up on the ongoing work in the FreeBSD project to update to a contemporary version of the i915 driver. For context, some background information on the earlier approaches we've taken to import the i915 driver in FreeBSD. In the past, developers often rewor

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

Re: [Intel-gfx] FreeBSD i915 driver update

2016-05-13 Thread Scott Long
> On May 13, 2016, at 1:34 AM, Jani Nikula wrote: > > On Fri, 13 May 2016, Scott Long 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 possib

Re: [Intel-gfx] FreeBSD i915 driver update

2016-05-13 Thread Jani Nikula
On Fri, 13 May 2016, Scott Long 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

[Intel-gfx] FreeBSD i915 driver update

2016-05-12 Thread Scott Long
Hello intel-gfx, I'd like to offer a heads-up on the ongoing work in the FreeBSD project to update to a contemporary version of the i915 driver. For context, some background information on the earlier approaches we've taken to import the i915 driver in FreeBSD. In the past, developers often rewor