[CFT] drm updates

[vehemens]

On Friday 15 August 2008 08:01:56 am Robert Noland wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-08-14 at 23:07 -0700, vehemens wrote:
> ...
> > On a side note, intel just eliminated any reason for a BSD user to buy
> > any of their new hardware.  yea??
>
> I'm frustrated, but intel has been fairly good about giving up docs and
> licensing of code that they write.  I don't think that they are actively
> trying to alienate us, they are just trying to take advantage of the
> latest linux kernel bits and make it easier for them to merge into
> linux.  I'm not sure that it is going to work out all that well for them
> (the linux folks) either though.  For now, it's all still up in the air,
> so I don't know what will happen with the repo's.  As far as gem and
> mode-setting go, intel has been working hard to get those features done
> for linux, and while I don't forsee them helping us with our code, they
> aren't actively working against us either...

That was a bit of a dig at intel by me.  They have done a log of good work 
recently.

A lot of the GEM code appears to be usable on BSD once you get past the linux 
parts.  Ditto for mode-setting.