On Sat, Feb 9, 2019 at 4:14 PM Stephan Althaus < [email protected]> wrote:
> Hello! > > I would like to have a look into your work, > is there a sourcecode repo for 'xorg-testing' anywhere? > I need to recover the source tree from my laptop disk first. I'll update you when it is pushed. > > On 02/09/19 02:38 PM, Aurélien Larcher wrote: > > Hi, > > a main difficulty is that illumos lacks some kms bits. > > Also the intel linux drm driver was refactored about 4 years ago and > > has diverged considerably from our code base. > > I have spent some time reorganizing the code base last year to match > > Linux without introducing functional changes. > > This could help incremental changes. > > Unfortunately I am not able to contribute to OI for now so I won't > > have time to integrate this. > > One could use the xorg-testing repository to push and test incremental > changes. > > That's how minor chnages to the X stack have been shared in the past. > > > > On 2/9/19, Stephan Althaus <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hello! > >> > >> For my personal like - and for a better acceptance of the oi-distro in > >> the world ;-) > >> i would like to update the (intel) graphics drivers to a recent state. > >> > >> it seems to me that this is not an easy job to do, > >> as at a quick look these files are at minimum related: > >> > >> gfx-drm/usr/src/uts/common/sys/agp/agpdefs.h > >> gfx-drm/usr/src/uts/common/drm/drm_pciids.h > >> gfx-drm/usr/src/uts/intel/io/i915/i915_drv.c > >> gfx-drm/usr/src/common/libdrm/libdrm-2.4.75/intel/intel_chipset.h > >> illumos-gate/usr/src/uts/intel/io/drm/i915_drv.h > >> illumos-gate/usr/src/uts/intel/io/drm/drm_pciids.h > >> illumos-gate/usr/src/uts/common/sys/agp/agpdefs.h > >> > xf86-video-intel-4798e18b2b2c8b0a05dc967e6140fd9962bc1a73/src/intel_driver.h > >> > xf86-video-intel-4798e18b2b2c8b0a05dc967e6140fd9962bc1a73/src/i915_pciids.h > >> > xf86-video-intel-4798e18b2b2c8b0a05dc967e6140fd9962bc1a73/xvmc/i915_xvmc.h > >> > >> ... broad spread and some files are 'old' ... > >> > >> I am a beginner, but also would like to provide some help (minimum at > >> testing) > >> - i dont know the right way how to achieve the goal. > >> where should i start? what are the steps? > >> Someone willing to act as a mentor?? > >> > >> All hints and opinions are welcome :-) > >> > >> Thanks for listening! > >> > >> Greetings, > >> Stephan > >> > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> openindiana-discuss mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss > >> > > > > > _______________________________________________ > openindiana-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss > -- --- Praise the Caffeine embeddings _______________________________________________ openindiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
