From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mga03.intel.com (mga03.intel.com [134.134.136.65]) by gabe.freedesktop.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3AC046E0C5 for ; Thu, 12 Dec 2019 18:20:31 +0000 (UTC) From: D Scott Phillips In-Reply-To: <87lfrh3ifb.fsf@intel.com> References: <20191211005235.67897-1-d.scott.phillips@intel.com> <87lfrh3ifb.fsf@intel.com> Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2019 10:20:29 -0800 Message-ID: <86v9qlo176.fsf@intel.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [igt-dev] [PATCH i-g-t 00/30] Add FreeBSD Support List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Errors-To: igt-dev-bounces@lists.freedesktop.org Sender: "igt-dev" To: Jani Nikula , igt-dev@lists.freedesktop.org Cc: Petri Latvala List-ID: Jani Nikula writes: > I'll mostly defer to Petri and Arek, the IGT maintainers, on the > details. > > I think the bigger questions are, 1) How do we ensure this does not > bitrot in a matter of weeks? Which translates to, 2) Who is going to > automate and maintain continuous build testing? And, 3) Who's going to > take ownership of the port in general? > > Personally, I don't think this is going to work long term just by > merging the port upstream. I think without the continuous support from > people who care about FreeBSD, this is going to be a net negative. Right, I think that's a fair point. What level of continuous support do you think would get us out of the negative here? A continuous build could be fairly easy to get configured, but might be a side workflow apart from how normal CI results are presented. I think that could be a reasonable indication that things aren't rotting. More sophisticated CI is within the realm of possibility but could be quite a bit harder to get off the ground with. Ultimately, I think as long as the kernel driver port exists this is something that we will want. As to who owns the port, FreeBSD has a "Graphics Team" that collectively owns the kernel driver port, so I think the most robust answer going forward is to have them own this port. I can take this up with them and see if they'll affirm that they will take some ownership here. _______________________________________________ igt-dev mailing list igt-dev@lists.freedesktop.org https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/igt-dev