Non-upstreamed drivers from NetBSD

[Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult]

On 29.01.25 19:16, nia wrote:

Hi,

>> By the way: I still like to add netbsd to the CI - major blocker
>> is lack of a suitable cloud image, where we can directly ssh into
>> w/o any authentication. (f.d.o folks don't like to host custom
>> images that cant be automatically reproduced - we'd need some
>> "official" ci/cloud image similar to what freebsd is providing)
>>
>
> This seems pretty unlikely to happen in the short term.

Why ? Anything we could help with ?

> They are constantly kept up to date with the latest X server.

Which "latest" ? The 21.1 maintenance branch or master ?

> I'd assume you wanted to mirror the repositories on
> git.freedesktop.org,

Not necessarily, but at least let xorg-testing build all these
drivers on NetBSD target.

> since we keep everything in a cvs monorepo.
> From there we can work on other platforms and build machinery.

CVS and monorepo ? Seriously ? Why ?
I really would never ever go back to such a complicated and fragile
tool like CVS (nor SVN) anymore ...

I'm actually open to reintegrate drivers into Xorg tree (we already
have some in-tree), because we don't really have an *specified* API,
which makes refactoring unnecessarily hard (


--mtx

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Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
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