On Mon, Sep 3, 2018 at 11:46 AM Thomas de Grivel <billi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I was browsing the DRM code ported from Linux and it's a terrible > mess, is there any ongoing project to clean up that codebase or > rewrite it entirely ? > No. OpenBSD doesn't have the resources to reimplement the DRM subsystem or maintain a non-trivial fork of the Linux version. We don't want to get stuck with a code base that doesn't support close-to-current hardware, so the porting work has concentrated on minimizing the changes necessary to make the upstream code base work in OpenBSD. It's clear that the hardware support in the upstream has large contributions from developers with inside access at the hardware vendors; without such access it's doubtful that all the hardware bugs^Wlimitations can be worked around with non-infinite resource. Improvements in the DRM code itself should be done in the upstream, not just to minimize OpenBSD costs in this area, but so that all OSes that draw from that base can benefit. Philip Guenther
