[igt-dev] [PATCH i-g-t 00/30] Add FreeBSD Support

[Jani Nikula]

On Tue, 10 Dec 2019, D Scott Phillips <d.scott.phillips at intel.com> wrote:
> FreeBSD maintains a port of drm and a few drivers: amdgpu, i915,
> radeon, vboxvideo, vmwgfx:
>
> https://github.com/FreeBSDDesktop/kms-drm/
>
> Recently I backported some drm & i915 security patches into our
> tree and was lacking a way to verify the backports. Here is my
> attempt at adding FreeBSD support to igt.
>
> I've tried to order the series so that what I believe will be less
> controversial comes nearer the start. I've also tried to err on
> the side of too many small patches, so I'm happy to squash things
> where that seems more appropriate to people.
>
> The "null" implementations toward the end are probably more like
> RFC ideas. I'm willing to take other approaches there if anyone
> has a better idea for how to handle large sections of code that
> are more linux specific. Cheers,

I'll mostly defer to Petri and Arek, the IGT maintainers, on the
details.

I think the bigger questions are, 1) How do we ensure this does not
bitrot in a matter of weeks? Which translates to, 2) Who is going to
automate and maintain continuous build testing? And, 3) Who's going to
take ownership of the port in general?

Personally, I don't think this is going to work long term just by
merging the port upstream. I think without the continuous support from
people who care about FreeBSD, this is going to be a net negative.


BR,
Jani.


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Jani Nikula, Intel Open Source Graphics Center