[PATCH libdrm 2/5] xf86drm: implement drmParseSubsystemType for OpenBSD

Jonathan Gray jsg at jsg.id.au
Wed Nov 30 00:23:33 UTC 2016


On Tue, Nov 29, 2016 at 07:46:31PM +0000, Emil Velikov wrote:
> On 26 November 2016 at 00:40, Jonathan Gray <jsg at jsg.id.au> wrote:
> > Implement drmParseSubsystemType for OpenBSD by always returning
> > DRM_BUS_PCI.  No non-pci drm drivers are in the kernel and this is
> > unlikely to change anytime soon as the existing ones aren't permissively
> > licensed.
> >
> A few noticeable X11 MIT style licensed drivers include qxl, vgem and
> virtio. Two of which PCI ones and vgem in it's own unique category ;-)
> 
> There was a question about re-licensing [some] drivers a few years ago
> at XDC in France. IIRC devs were fine with it, yet it doesn't seem
> like things changed much.
> Have you/fellow BSD developers considered reaching out [as a group] to
> interested drivers/developers ? Pardon if I've already
> mentioned/already asked about this.
> 
> Thanks
> Emil

There is no particular driver, cirrus, gma500 etc might be nice but
really what limited spare time we have that involves drm is dealt
dealing with the constant churn of i915.


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