Graphics Team Meeting notes from 2018-10-17

[Warner Losh]

On Fri, Oct 19, 2018 at 12:36 PM Pete Wright <pete at nomadlogic.org> wrote:

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>
> On 10/18/18 9:14 PM, Warner Losh wrote:
> > The graphics team has started having regular conference calls to keep
> > things moving along and to expand the knowledge base of graphics and
> > graphics issues. To that end, I'll be taking notes during these meetings
> > and publishing them here. This is an experiment, so please send me
> feedback
> > on how useful you find this.
> >
> > We plan on abstracting this down into the quarterly reports as well.
>
> Thanks Warner for this, I find it very helpful for myself personally.  I
> have tried to assist as much as I can with the DRM related work, but
> having wider visibility into all FreeBSD graphics work is really
> helpful.  I'll keep my eyes peeled for other opportunities to contribute
> in future updates! :)
>

There's two goals here. First is to help document what all the moving parts
are of our graphics stack, and which bits may need more attention at the
moment. The second is to highlight the issues that are actively being
worked on. The hope is that with greater visibility into the team that we
can encourage more casual and useful contributions that are well
coordinated. Maybe even publish enough context to spark enough work from
someone not currently contributing that we can lighten the load. Or maybe
somebody has a clever way to test dozens of different video cards in a way
that isn't labor intensive and automate that part of the project. Oh, and a
pony. :)

Warner