kern/130478: [request] Port Linux kernel stub of nouveau to
FreeBSD
Mark Linimon
linimon at lonesome.com
Mon Jan 12 15:50:02 PST 2009
The following reply was made to PR kern/130478; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: linimon at lonesome.com (Mark Linimon)
To: Henrik Friedrichsen <hrkfdn at gmail.com>
Cc: bug-followup at FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: kern/130478: [request] Port Linux kernel stub of nouveau to FreeBSD
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 17:42:02 -0600
On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 11:30:03PM +0000, Henrik Friedrichsen wrote:
> So is this a good or a bad thing? Are patches in development? Or why did
> you suspend the PR? =)
I know of no patches in development.
Although we do allow requests for features to be submitted to GNATS,
in practice they are hardly ever acted on. We have a sufficient
backlog of things that you can technically consider "problem reports"
to keep us busy for years :-)
My own priorities are to bring attention to:
- things that affect data integrity
- regressions introduced in new versions
- various bugs in the kernel
- various bugs in userland
There are a considerable backlog of the above (we have a lot more users
than we do developers :-) )
What I consider secondary problems:
- problems installing FreeBSD in the first place
- non-supported devices
We do have a team of bugbusters willing to help people with problems
installing, which has helped to keep the count down to some degree.
However, the 'requests' generally do not get handled -- it takes a
developer wanting to solve a problem that affects him or her before
things get committed.
mcl
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