On Sun, Aug 26, 2018 at 00:25 blubee blubeeme <gurenchan at gmail.com>
wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 26, 2018 at 2:08 AM Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav <des at des.no>
wrote:
>
> > blubee blubeeme <gurenchan at gmail.com> writes:
> > > True on both points my tone is just a reflection of attitudes of
the
> > > individuals that I am currently addressing.
> >
> > Well, congratulations on alienating absolutely everybody you have
> > interacted with on this topic.
> >
> > > Some people enjoy making contributions w/o waving a banner
constantly
> > > wanting acknowledgement, a pat on the head and good job from
everyone.
> >
> > The only person I see constantly craving attention and validation from
> > others here is you.
> >
> > > How far will core FreeBSD bend over backwards to accommodate
these
> > > devs.
> >
> > The core team does not decide what goes into the tree or not. The
> > developers do.
> >
> > > This is the beauty of an open source project, we bring the best
to the
> > > table, [...]
> >
> > Who exactly is ?we? here? You are not a member of the project, you do
> > not speak for the project, and after seeing how you treat our fellow
> > developers, our friends, most of us want nothing to do with you. If
> > can't live with that, I'm sure you can figure out how to
install Linux.
> >
> > DES
> > --
> > Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav - des at des.no
>
>
> Some on here want to attack my personality because they think that I am
> abrasive, fine but that's not the issue.
>
> Some claim that they run the code and it works wonderful for them with no
> issues, again that's lovely keep on running the code.
>
> Nevertheless let me restate the point that you guys are all seeming to
> miss; If you can go out and build custom kernels with custom options and
> out of mainline tree that's fine, keep doing that until you have
something
> that's production ready and as easy to install as the rest of FreeBSD
> system.
>
> The graphics stack on FreeBSD is pretty bad as it stands but all the
> documentation currently out there is about using it as it stands now.
>
> Why do you need to rip out the current graphics drivers which will break
> systems for the vast majority of silent users who will not complain and
> just leave?
>
> ---- A little background ----
> Do you know why Samsung, Motorola, Sony, LG, Nokia, etc... never update
> their phones to the latest android version?
>
> It's because the Linux kernel is such a mess they know it's a waste
of
> resources to try. You should not have to ask how or why I know this but if
> it's unclear I was in the field.
> -----------------------------------
>
> Now you guys who claim to only be hobbyist doing this in their free time
> expect to maintain this when those companies with all their resources
> cannot?
>
> Those 30,000 ports many of them bring bugs with them because of this
> Linuxkpi stuff. Just recently there was a user who said google earth
> doesn't work the answer was it doesn't work and that's that.
>
> They get ported and then get dropped so while the ports tree is large, if
> you actually try to use some of those programs they are broken, maintenance
> hell for the developers and confusion for the users.
>
> Johannes Lundberg I know that you are one of the main working on this
> linuxkpi stuff but anyone else is free to answer as well.
>
> Let's have an open discussion why do you need to remove the current
> graphics stack to continue with your work?
This has been discussed over and over on the mailing list and I don?t think
anyone wants to do it over again so please feel free to search the
archives.
You?re misinformed. We are not removing anything for anyone. We are moving
it to ports.
?pkg install drm-legacy-kmod? will install those drivers for you that were
earlier in base. I thought we have been clear about this but maybe we
haven?t been clear enough.
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