Re: kernel modules for rockchip video for pinebook pro and rockpro64

It is quite simple actually, what I use and want to use is entirely up to
me and me only :)
I just shared my patches for getting the RK356X line of SOC’s supported in
14-stable in the hope it would be useful for someone.
I did NOT sign up for anything else, If you want to port it to -current by
my guest, it is all free to use/hack/whatever.
But kind of demanding how I should use my sparse free time reminds me
(sadly) of why I handed in my commit bit many years ago.

Søren Schmidt
[email protected] / [email protected]
"So much code to hack, so little time"

Den tirs. 12. aug. 2025 kl. 02.56 skrev Sulev-Madis Silber <
[email protected]>:

> i never understand what stops you guys from working on current directly?
> like get it into tree. did you get into fight with devs? if yes, why?
> couldn't adhere to standards? i see hours of manpower being spent on
> creating stuff on 13, 14 and now plans to do it on 15 again? if 15 is
> mature it's already old. sure, you can do it. it's called a (local) fork. i
> just have problems with it. particularly, if i want to use it, i can't.
> noone else can, either. i'm curious why those decisions are made. who wants
> to run old 13 with all old insecure ports and so on? but at least runs on
> new hw. it's a wtf. it's complete and utter wtf to look forward on running
> old fbsd. despite everyone is completely free in doing so. it's not
> internal company stuff either, otherwise why tell it on fbsd official list.
> it all makes me very sad!!!
>
>
>
> On August 11, 2025 7:41:34 PM GMT+03:00, Mario Marietto <
> [email protected]> wrote:
> >--> FWIW I modified Emmanuel Vadot's work [1] to be buildable as kmods on
> >15-current
> >
> >--> When 15-stable has matured enough I will start to move my sources
> >there, but it's a rather big undertaking not just the rockchip stuff…
> >
> >so,what happens here ? to test the code created by JSM on the radxa zero
> 3W
> >we should wait until the 15-stable has matured enough,right ? So it seems
> >that JSM created a code that can't be used at the moment. I've thought
> that
> >if this can be done,even the patches for 14.x can be ported to 15.x before
> >it matured :D
> >
> >---> Helping you with your phone project looks to be a full time developer
> >job, which I don’t have the time for, sorry.
> >
> >it isn't. Never asked for a full time job from you.
> >
> >
> >On Mon, Aug 11, 2025 at 5:59 PM Søren Schmidt <[email protected]>
> >wrote:
> >
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> Just a heads up (I’m on vacation) so not “gone” 😀
> >> Anyhow my patches are and will be for 14-stable for the foreseeable
> >> future, 14-stable has an EOL date of late 2028 so lots of time 😀
> >> When 15-stable has matured enough I will start to move my sources there,
> >> but its a rather big undertaking not just the rockchip stuff…
> >> Helping you with your phone project looks to be a fulltime developer
> job,
> >> which I don’t have the time for, sorry.
> >>
> >> /Søren
> >>
> >> Sent from my iPhone
> >>
> >> On 11 Aug 2025, at 16.32, Mario Marietto <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> 
> >> Hello bro.
> >>
> >> As you may already know,I'm building a modular "phone" based on the
> radxa
> >> zero 3W board and FreeBSD 14.2 with the panfrost enabled (ported by
> >> covacat). But the 14.2 is going EOL and soon the whole 14.x branch. I'm
> >> interested in starting to think about the 15.x branch. Point is that
> >> FreeBSD works on the radxa board only because Soren developed his patch
> for
> >> the 14.x.
> >>
> >> But what about grabbing the code of FreeBSD 15.0 (what's the closest
> >> version that can work with the radxa zero 3W ?) and try to apply the
> >> Soren's patch to its code ? And then integrate the code of covacat with
> >> your new drm-subtree code ? Is it doable ? Do you want to help me ? I
> think
> >> that most of Soren's patches don't apply to 15.x and he stopped even to
> >> reply to my messages. So I don't think he wants to modify it's patch to
> >> make them work for the 15.x branch.
> >>
> >> Except you and Covacat,no one seems to be interested in this. And I'm
> not
> >> a developer. I can barely test hardware and code and report the errors
> that
> >> I get....
> >>
> >> On Sun, Aug 10, 2025 at 4:05 PM Jesper Schmitz Mouridsen <
> [email protected]>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Hi,
> >>>
> >>> FWIW I modified Emmanuel Vadot's work [1] to be buildable as kmods on
> >>> 15-current [2]
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> [1] https://github.com/evadot/drm-subtree
> >>> [2] https://github.com/jsm222/drm-subtree
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> >> --
> >> Mario.
> >>
> >>
> >
>