gfx-next update: drm-4.8-rc2 tagged in drm-next

[Gleb Popov]

On Wed, Sep 28, 2016 at 10:20 AM, Andrei <az at azsupport.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 28 Sep 2016 08:49:43 +0300
> Gleb Popov <6yearold at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > The strangest thing is that he does this trolling from his company's
> > e-mail, which makes me think the guy is actually hacked.
> This is not "company" email. And nobody hacked me.
>
> > If it is really you, I doubt this would make a good advertisement for
> > your services, Andrei. You've been told several times from different
> > people that 1. Patches will go into FreeBSD, not some fork.
> He is never said that patches will go into FreeBSD. All times he is hiding
> from straight answer. He said that this is will be "as port" for "faster
> development". This is bullshit. For this he can use CURRENT.
>

He can, yes, but upstreaming stuff is slow and takes time. It is perfectly
fine for a developer to let upstream to pull in his work, instead of doing
it himself.


> I found that something really wrong when "drm-next 4.6" was finished and
> no commits in CURRENT. Then 4.7 and nothing! Even now when 4.8 rc2 and
> still you must to download his fork. I will not surprised that "gfx-next"
> patches will never be in FreeBSD.
>

You've found there is something wrong. Great. Now go fix it.
Take the burden of upstreaming this code, instead of whining. Maybe you
will feel then, what it means to go a full cycle of
 research a problem -> code it -> upstream it.


> > 2. You was the first to mention NextBSD at all.
> From: Matthew Macy <mmacy at nextbsd.org>
> http://nextbsd.org/welcome-to-ghost/
> and read subject of email "gfx-NEXT update"
>
> It is so oblivious if you just don't blind.
>

This post is a year old and doesn't mention any work on DRM field. Nor the
github repo in topic. That "NEXT" thing sound somewhat like some conspiracy
theory. Illuminaty confirmed?


> > Still hoping that this is misunderstanding of yours and you will
> > acknowledge it.
> I also hopping that you and some others understand me in right way.
> If nobody cares, then ok. At least I did something. Bye.
>

Yeah, bye. Let's not hijack this thread.