From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263709AbUHBXJc (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Aug 2004 19:09:32 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263769AbUHBXJb (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Aug 2004 19:09:31 -0400 Received: from web14924.mail.yahoo.com ([216.136.225.8]:60769 "HELO web14924.mail.yahoo.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S263709AbUHBXJT (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Aug 2004 19:09:19 -0400 Message-ID: <20040802230913.60350.qmail@web14924.mail.yahoo.com> Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2004 16:09:13 -0700 (PDT) From: Jon Smirl Subject: Re: DRM code reorganization To: Dave Jones Cc: Ian Romanick , lkml , "DRI developer's list" In-Reply-To: <20040802210935.GF12724@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --- Dave Jones wrote: > Another possibility of course is that the BSD & Linux kernel side > bits go their separate ways. How active is the kernel side of the > BSD world ? I'll probably get flamed to death for suggesting this, but why not? What about leaving BSD working with the current code and moving forward on Linux alone? The thread "OLS and console rearchitecture" describes a lot of changes to the graphics system. Some of these are much easier to achieve on Linux than BSD since some the underlying operations are supported in the Linux kernel and not in the BSD one. After we achieve a new stable point, maybe the first X on GL release, we back port everything to BSD. One problem right now is that there are only one or two BSD developers, all of the rest are Linux based. Most of the Linux based people have no clue as to BSD's capabilities. Wouldn't it simply be more efficient to put BSD on hold for a while and then resynch after everything has stabilized? ===== Jon Smirl jonsmirl@yahoo.com __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Read only the mail you want - Yahoo! Mail SpamGuard. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail