Re: your mail
Greg V <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.os.freebsd.devel.x11 |
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On Wed, May 16, 2018 at 12:48 PM, blubee blubeeme <[email protected]> wrote: > > There's absolutely no reason for anyone to invest any resources into > developing a proper graphics stack for FreeBSD if the FreeBSD devs > are only > going to rely on Jerry-rigged stuff from Linux. > > The mailing list is bombarded by regressions and issues with the > Linuxkpi > stuff. For lightweight stuff sure, use the Linuxkpi if u have to but > for a > major component of the platform, that's just pathetic. > > There are talented devs out there who can get the work done, they > just need > to be financing, then organized. > > Seeing as most other platforms got their networking stack from BSD, > it's a > sad state when FreeBSD has to use Linuxkpi to get networking drivers. > > If stating that the FreeBSD graphics stack is in a sad position is > "shitting on people" then I'm guilty of that. > > I just know that we can and should do better. As if the graphics stack doesn't have lots of issues and regressions *on Linux*. Heck, proprietary vendor drivers on Windows often have worse issues than the open source graphics stack! FreeBSD is not in a sad position, it's in a great position. I'm literally writing this from a Weston desktop that uses atomic modesetting on AMDGPU DC (on a Polaris card). VA-API video acceleration works. Vulkan (RADV) works both in X11 and Wayland apps. OpenCL (Clover) works. Overclocking the GPU and VRAM works. This is awesome! I can't imagine anything better. A couple years ago we barely had i915 Haswell support. There is NOTHING wrong with a compatibility layer like LinuxKPI. The only better way would be a standardized kernel interface that all Unix-like kernels agree on. Good luck with getting them to agree on *anything*. And yeah, speaking of network, my Mellanox ConnectX-2 works fine. So both of the things I have plugged into PCIe on my tower have LinuxKPI based drivers :P _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-x11 To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"