Subject: Re: DRI [was: Re: more summer of code fun]
To: Tonnerre <tonnerre@thundrix.ch>
From: Michael <macallan18@earthlink.net>
List: tech-x11
Date: 06/06/2005 18:59:47
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Hello,

> > > So what's the solution for NetBSD here - merge in newer XFree into
> > > xsrc?=20
> > > Merge in modules from X.org into our xsrc? Migrate xsrc to x.org?
> > > ...?
> >=20
> > More like merge in the stuff from dri.freedesktop.org. The only
> > question is how exactly.
>=20
> Please note that this is exactly what I did..

Yes - sorry for not explicitly mentioning it ;)

> > > I think keeping as much from xsrc as it is right now would be
> > > desirable, dunno if that's possible, while shipping as much code
> > > as possible in a standard install (i.e. no pkgs, patch & compile
> > > orgies etc. required to get things going).
> >=20
> > I think there are already some patches out there to compile the
> > radeon module for x86 via src/x11, no idea if that's in the cvs tree
> > though.
> > Now there's Tonnerre's work, which apparently took a slightly
> > different approach.
>=20
> My approach is to put the kernel module into the kernel.

I know and I think that's where it belongs - the question is only how
and where exactly to keep everyone ( well, almost everyone ) happy.

have fun
Michael

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