[Intel-gfx] FreeBSD i915 driver update

[Ed Maste]

On 13 May 2016 at 03:34, Jani Nikula <jani.nikula at linux.intel.com> 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 upstream while also trying to stay
> up-to-date.

There are certainly lots of other things we can do with our time :-)

That said, I see another advantage of the new approach here. In the
past at any given time we had somewhere between nobody and one or two
brave souls working on the driver in FreeBSD. That work required an
understanding of the hardware, FreeBSD and Linux interfaces, and
context of the previous modifications to the driver.

Now we have a much larger team of folks contributing, and the work can
more easily be distributed.