What are the criteria for contributing to development and testing?

[Jean-Sébastien Pédron]

Le 21/02/2016 14:28, Anil Gulati a écrit :
> I take it unless I get a Haswell chip I won't be able to be of any help?

Hi!

If you want to contribute to the drivers themselves, yeah, getting a
Haswell is what what would be immediately helpful. If you have already
supported hardware, you can help by testing for regressions and fixing
them (for instance, a critical regression is what blocks the i915 update
currently).

If you're willing to work on other topics, there are several tasks which
don't require specific hardware.

I listed a few tasks during my presentation at FOSDEM, here is the
starting point in the slides:
https://rawgit.com/dumbbell/freebsd-writings/master/presentations/fosdem-2016/index.html#/todo-xserver-1

I need to add that list to the wiki with more details about each of them.

> I gather Broadwell "had problems" and was a short-lived chipset but
> apparently we have to work through Haswell, Broadwell, Skylake in order.

Yes, because we follow Linux releases here, so Broadwell came before
Skylake and chances are that Broadwell support is more optimized and
stable than Skylake.

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Jean-Sébastien Pédron