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On Tue, May 15, 2018 at 4:07 PM, Niclas Zeising <zeising at freebsd.org> wrote:

> On 05/15/18 00:47, Emil Velikov wrote:
>
>> On 22 February 2017 at 14:46, Matthew Rezny <rezny at freebsd.org> wrote:
>>
>> It has been my intent to upstream as much as possible, but I was trying
>>> to get
>>> us caught up to current before doing so.
>>>
>>
>> Any idea what happened to this?
>>
>> Earlier I joined the #freebsd-xorg channel, yet it seems fairly inactive.
>> Repeating some of my questions here, hope anyone can shed some light:
>>
>>   - How does FreeBSD handle loading of kernel DRM/GPU modules?
>> Is there a daemon of sorts, manually or via hacking the graphics stack
>> - Xorg/xf86-video*/etc
>>
>>   - ^^ creating /dev nodes
>>
>>   - How capable is your sysfs compat? Or more importantly how frowned
>> upon it is to use it on FreeBSD?
>>
>> And an extra one:
>> - How does one contribute patches to (say the graphics - libdrm/mesa/etc)
>> ports?
>> Is there some instructions and CI there I can throw some patches at?
>>
>>
> Hi!
> Thank you for your mail and thanks for reaching out!  I was one of the
> ones responding on IRC, unfortunately you caught me at a bad time here,
> hence my suggestion to send an e-mail.
>
> I know the FreeBSD graphcis effort have been somewhat dormant (yeah,
> that's an understatement), but I'm working on getting it going again with a
> group of people.  It's still in the early stages but hopefully something
> will come out of it.  We had such a team about 4 or 5 years back, but
> people, including myself, got different priorities (you know, life happens).
>
> Currently, we have a working area and development repos on gitub, which
> you can find here https://github.com/FreeBSDDesktop/, amongst other
> things there's a fork of the FreeBSD ports repo there where most ports
> development happens.  There's no problem getting you access to that one,
> and we can also add forks of upstream mesa and drm repos and so on.  We
> also have a gitter chat that we're trying out.  It can be found here:
> https://gitter.im/FreeBSDDesktop/Lobby, you're welcome to join there as
> well.  It's connected to github.  The IRC channel #freebsd-xorg is
> unfortunately somewhat dormant, because not everyone hangs out there, but
> I'm available there as well.
>
> As I said, we're still early in the process, so all details aren't 100%
> set yet, but this is what we have going for now.
>
> Now, to your questions.  As far as I know, there's no automatic loading of
> the graphics modules, apart from the really old stuff.  If memory serves me
> correctly.  The current way of doing it is to load the module before
> starting X, usually as part of the boot process.  There might be a hack in
> xf86-video-intel to load some modules, but not the latest kms graphics
> modules.
>
> Creating /dev nodes is handled automatically by devfs and devd.  I don't
> know how it's done in detail, but it's automatic as far as at least I'm
> concerned.
>
> As for sysfs, mmacy gave a good responce on IRC.
>
> For patches and contributing, as I said, we're trying to set up shop on
> github (and from there merge into FreeBSD SVN repos).  The kernel bits
> (what's called drm-next sometimes) are already there, and I've started
> working on a ports repo there as well.  That's probably the best place to
> start.  We don't have a CI setup currently, I use the package building
> system poudriere locally on my desktop.  I can help you get started with
> both poudriere and the FreeBSD ports system, and I can also help with
> adding patches to the ports and build packages for testing.
> I hope to be able to add more automatic building and some sort of CI
> solution in the future, but this is where we're at today.
>
> We already have some local patches, they should be upstreamed, but I
> haven't had time to work through them, and since I don't know exactly how
> they work, it will take some time to get them upstream.
> Can I contact you directly to get them upstreamed once they're ready?
>
> Once again, thank you very much for reaching out, and thank you for
> reading to the end!
> Regards
> --
> Niclas Zeising
> FreeBSD graphics team
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I like the goals of this project better than drm-kmod stuff.

You guys can always drop me a line whenever if u have a custom mailing list
I'd like to stay informed on your progress.

I will be looking to devote some resources to this issue in due time.

Best,
Owen