On Sat, 4 Sep 2004 17:43:13 +0200, Simon 'corecode' Schubert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think David Airlie broke it already before. Yes I am using DRM on > DragonFlyBSD and yes there are lots of people who'd like to use it on > *BSD too. I just didn't want to stomp right in and scream "you break it > - fix it!". Actually I hoped that the linux specific parts would be > abstracted again so that it wouldn't break on BSD. As I'm not following > cvs mailings I hoped Erik Anholt would fix the broken parts, but he's > busy I think. > > But as it seems that you want to hear people scream when something > broke, okay. I will happily post breakes and - if I'm able to do so - > also fixes to this.
BSD developers need to keep an eye on DRM and make sure it doesn't get totally broken for them. There are DRM developers (like me) that have never even booted a BSD system and haven't got a clue about it's kernel API. I'm a little concerned that we are doing a lot of work to support a few people (<100) using DRM on BSD. I suspicious that it is a very small number since we get close to zero complaints about BSD even though we break it continuously. I'm also not proposing to shut BSD out of the DRM code base. I'm trying to merge fbdev and DRM into a single, unified video architecture on Linux. Linux is GPL so half of this merge code base (fbdev) is GPL code. Mixing the GPL code into the DRM code base will convert it's license from BSD to GPL. No one is proposing removing BSD support from DRM. So from a BSD perspective which is worse, converting DRM to a GPL license or forking DRM into Linux and BSD versions? ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by BEA Weblogic Workshop FREE Java Enterprise J2EE developer tools! Get your free copy of BEA WebLogic Workshop 8.1 today. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=5047&alloc_id=10808&op=click -- _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
