Importing code from Linux

Jean-Sébastien Pédron dumbbell at FreeBSD.org
Mon Mar 17 10:04:38 UTC 2014


On 14.03.2014 21:00, Justin Hibbits wrote:
> (I hope I'm not coming off hostile with this, it's not my intent).

Don't worry, your tone is perfectly fine :-)

> Looking at https://wiki.freebsd.org/Graphics I see there's a WIP for
> importing DRM from Linux 3.8.  When you do it, can you please keep in
> the non-x86 support?

Yes, the goal is to be as close as possible to Linux original code, to
ease future updates.

> Big endian/non-x86 support was pulled out when
> merging in the Radeon KMS driver, which only makes enabling PowerPC
> support that much more onerous.

I don't remember removing explicitely PowerPC bits from the Radeon
driver. If I did so, that's a mistake.

I still have your patch to make it build on PowerPC and I think I never
answered you... I'm sorry :-/ Were you able to test it?

-- 
Jean-Sébastien Pédron

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