On Thu, May 31, 2018 at 4:34 PM Joe Maloney <jmaloney_at_ixsystems.com> wrote: > I personally wish that more drivers, and firmware were separated from > base. > > I'm not a committer but as I understand there's not pre-commit integration tests.. If one had that, plus that it would test build kmod ports against the pre-commit state of head as well, then maybe this would work. > For example wireless firmware: > > https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=169433 > > That was a ticket which I chimed in on about a firmware I needed to make > my wireless adapter work. I went through numerous efforts on IRC, and > elsewhere to try to bring attention that ticket in order to attempt to get > that firmware backported for several 10.x releases in a row without > success. The firmware worked perfectly fine in PC-BSD where it was cherry > picked for numerous 10.x releases. > > Technically since I was using PC-BSD, and was a committer for that project > I had no real dire need to reach out to FreeBSD about the issue. I was > simply trying to help anyone else who might be encountering the same issue > trying to use stock FreeBSD because it was a simple backport. If my effort > had turned out to be more fruitful I would have spent more time pursuing > tickets, diffs, or whatever to get more things back-ported when I found > them. I am not sure where the breakdown was which did not allow that to > happen. Anyways I don't want to bikeshed, or anything but I just wanted to > point out how I think having more drivers, and firmware in ports could be > helpful to enhance compatibility for end users. > > Having a separate port for legacy drm could definitely make things easier > to providing installation options for end users, and automating the post > install action chosen in TrueOS, GhostBSD, and future derivative projects > tailored for the desktop use case. For example for TrueOS we boot the > installer in failsafe mode with either VESA, or SCFB depending on whether > or not BIOS, or EFI is booted. Then we could simply make a checkbox for > legacy intel, or skylake + to install the correct package then the module > path for either driver can more or less remain the same. Eventually with > something like devmatch maybe that can even be fully automatic. > > Joe Maloney > > On Thu, May 31, 2018 at 10:23 AM, Daniel Eischen <deischen_at_freebsd.org> > wrote: > >> On Thu, 31 May 2018, Konstantin Belousov wrote: >> >> On Thu, May 31, 2018 at 08:34:44AM +0100, Johannes Lundberg wrote: >>> >>> We're not replacing anything. We are moving the older drm1 and drm2 from >>>> kernel to ports to make it easier for the majority of the users to load >>>> the >>>> correct driver without conflicts. >>>> >>> >>> You do understand that you increase your maintainence load by this move. >>> dev/drm and dev/drm2 use KPIs which cannot be kept stable even in stable >>> branches, so you will need to chase these updates. >>> >> >> I agree. One argument previously made was that it's easier >> to maintain in ports. One data point from me - I rarely >> update my ports, I update my OS much more frequently. In >> fact, some times my ports get so out of date I just >> (take off and) nuke /usr/local (from orbit, it's the only >> way to be sure). >> >> Also, are we trying to solve a problem by moving drm[2] to >> ports that won't be a problem when base is pkg'ized? If >> drm[2] is a package unto itself, then you don't have this >> problem of ports conflicting with it, at least not so >> much. You can either not install the base drm[2] package >> or deinstall it to make way for a conflicting port. Once >> drm[2] is pkg rm'd, it's not going to be reinstalled >> again when you update the base OS. >> >> And don't we have the same problem with sendmail and a >> few other base services? >> >> -- >> DE >> >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-current_at_freebsd.org mailing list >> https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe_at_freebsd.org >> " >> > >Received on Thu May 31 2018 - 15:52:28 UTC
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