On Friday, June 1, 2018, Pete Wright <pete_at_nomadlogic.org> wrote: > > > On 05/31/2018 15:34, Oliver Pinter wrote: > >> On Thursday, May 31, 2018, Johannes Lundberg <johalun0_at_gmail.com> wrote: >> >> 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 >>> >> >> >>> If you are not a committer, how and why want to remove drm2 from the >> base >> system? >> > Johannes did not start this threat. A committer, Niclas Zeising, did. > Johannes has stepped up and done a ton of work (along with many others, > some committers and some not) to get modern intel and amd GPU's working > under freebsd. > True. Yes I agree that their work is hard and it's a very big step forward for supporting modern hardwares. And it's required modern desktops, but please don't break the existing ones. This is my only request, probably it was expressed in a harsh way, sorry. > > > this was something that was a gaping hole in freebsd when this work > started a bit over a year ago, and i'm not sure why more committers weren't > embarrassed by this gap nor motivated to chip in. > > regardless - not sure why you'd take his comment out of context :/ the > full quote was: > "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." > > not really sure what's controversial about that statement which would > prompt your reply - but i guess people dedicating their spare time to help > create useful things for others shouldn't go unpunished. > > well i guess i broke my promise to ignore this bikeshed :( > > -p > > -- > Pete Wright > pete_at_nomadlogic.org > _at_nomadlogicLA > >Received on Thu May 31 2018 - 21:38:31 UTC
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