Re: DRM development process wiki page..

2008-08-28 Thread Tomas Carnecky
Keith Whitwell wrote: >> Major bumps once stuff went into the kernel weren't allowed at all. >> You'd need to fork the driver in any case. So we did this once or >> twice on drivers in devel trees like mach64. >> However upstream first policy should avoid this need. I'd also prefer >> to see getpar

Re: DRM development process wiki page..

2008-08-28 Thread Kristian Høgsberg
On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 8:23 AM, Keith Whitwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Major bumps once stuff went into the kernel weren't allowed at all. >> You'd need to fork the driver in any case. So we did this once or >> twice on drivers in devel trees like mach64. >> However upstream first policy sho

Re: DRM development process wiki page..

2008-08-28 Thread Keith Whitwell
> Major bumps once stuff went into the kernel weren't allowed at all. > You'd need to fork the driver in any case. So we did this once or > twice on drivers in devel trees like mach64. > However upstream first policy should avoid this need. I'd also prefer > to see getparam for new features instead

Re: DRM development process wiki page..

2008-08-28 Thread Dave Airlie
On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 9:32 PM, Thomas Hellström <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dave Airlie wrote: >> >> On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 8:12 PM, Thomas Hellström >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> >>> Dave, >>> >>> This process looks ok to me, >>> but I think some clarifications are needed: >>> >>> Dave

Re: DRM development process wiki page..

2008-08-28 Thread Thomas Hellström
Dave Airlie wrote: > On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 8:12 PM, Thomas Hellström > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Dave, >> >> This process looks ok to me, >> but I think some clarifications are needed: >> >> Dave Airlie wrote: >> >>> Okay I've put some thoughts up at: >>> http://dri.freedesktop.org/

Re: DRM development process wiki page..

2008-08-28 Thread Dave Airlie
On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 8:12 PM, Thomas Hellström <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dave, > > This process looks ok to me, > but I think some clarifications are needed: > > Dave Airlie wrote: >> >> Okay I've put some thoughts up at: >> http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/DRMProcess >> >> and I've pasted it

Re: DRM development process wiki page..

2008-08-28 Thread Thomas Hellström
Dave, This process looks ok to me, but I think some clarifications are needed: Dave Airlie wrote: > Okay I've put some thoughts up at: > http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/DRMProcess > > and I've pasted it in below this for discussion. > > some other points: > > a) People are pushing for a process c

Re: DRM development process wiki page..

2008-08-27 Thread Robert Noland
On Wed, 2008-08-27 at 13:35 +1000, Dave Airlie wrote: > On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 1:02 PM, Robert Noland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, 2008-08-27 at 10:15 +1000, Dave Airlie wrote: > >> Okay I've put some thoughts up at: > >> http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/DRMProcess > >> > >> and I've past

Re: DRM development process wiki page..

2008-08-26 Thread Dave Airlie
On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 1:02 PM, Robert Noland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 2008-08-27 at 10:15 +1000, Dave Airlie wrote: >> Okay I've put some thoughts up at: >> http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/DRMProcess >> >> and I've pasted it in below this for discussion. >> >> some other points: >> >>

Re: DRM development process wiki page..

2008-08-26 Thread Robert Noland
On Wed, 2008-08-27 at 10:15 +1000, Dave Airlie wrote: > Okay I've put some thoughts up at: > http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/DRMProcess > > and I've pasted it in below this for discussion. > > some other points: > > a) People are pushing for a process change, we will have something > change, how

Re: DRM development process wiki page..

2008-08-26 Thread Jesse Barnes
On Tuesday, August 26, 2008 5:15 pm Dave Airlie wrote: > DRM Development Process (Proposed) > > 1. Master branch in Linux tree style with links for BSD etc. > > 2. Always compatible with current release Linux kernel + with > backwards compat *where* practical for older kernels. We should > probably

Re: DRM development process

2008-08-26 Thread Robert Noland
On Tue, 2008-08-26 at 14:17 -0700, Jesse Barnes wrote: > On Tuesday, August 26, 2008 1:27 pm Stephane Marchesin wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 10:21 PM, Jesse Barnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > On Tuesday, August 26, 2008 1:03 pm Stephane Marchesin wrote: > > >> > As for the "new develo

Re: DRM development process

2008-08-26 Thread Stephane Marchesin
On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 11:17 PM, Jesse Barnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tuesday, August 26, 2008 1:27 pm Stephane Marchesin wrote: >> >> I am outlining the fact that you confuse a problem and its solution. >> >> Problem: merging stuff upstream takes time to Dave >> Your solution: have lots o

Re: DRM development process

2008-08-26 Thread Jesse Barnes
On Tuesday, August 26, 2008 1:27 pm Stephane Marchesin wrote: > On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 10:21 PM, Jesse Barnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tuesday, August 26, 2008 1:03 pm Stephane Marchesin wrote: > >> > As for the "new development model"... Things are actually worse than I > >> > thought.