Thanks for the drm-next efforts. I could not, and would not be using FreeBSD without it. Joe Maloney On Mon, Aug 27, 2018 at 5:58 AM Thomas Mueller <mueller6722_at_twc.com> wrote: > Excerpt from Oliver Pinter: > > > Let's do some more step backwards, and see how the graphics driver > > developments works from the corporation side. > > They not bother about any of the BSDs, they focus only to Windows and > > Linux. If you want to use a recent (haha recent, something after 2014) > you > > are forced to use new drivers from linux. > > The fore/advantage on the Linux side are the zillions of corporately paid > > kernel developers. > > They can just focus on a new hw supports, on freebsd side, there are no > > corporately paid drm driver developer. Sadly. > > In linux word their internal KPI (try a Google for a "stable API > nonsense" > > words) moves so fastly, that porting of these drivers gets non trivial > > without a dedicated paid team. > > > If you want to change on this situation, try to learn for you could help > or > > send directed donations to freebsd foundation. ;) > > Linux and FreeBSD are not the only open-source OSes. > > There is also (Net, Open, DragonFly)BSD, Haiku, OpenIndiana and others. > > Maybe better would be for the hardware manufacturers to release more > general specifications that could be adapted to any OS, by the NetBSD > developers, Haiku developers, etc. Certainly not to ignore Linux. > > Tom > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable_at_freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe_at_freebsd.org" >Received on Mon Aug 27 2018 - 09:55:31 UTC
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