Time to integrate into NetBSD 6 (?) about netbsd-drmgem HOT 2 CLOSED

I'm happy to know that netbsd-drmgem works fine for you. But it won't be part of the next release (as you know, the netbsd-6 branch has already been cut).

I must admit that I'm not sure about the future of this project. It was meant as a temporary solution until proper DRM/GEM/KMS support made its way to NetBSD (kernel and userland), written by knowledgeable people (which I'm not). I haven't been able to make it work robustly on my hardware (see issues #2, #3, #4 and #5), and this led to some loss of interest.

Any help regarding the remaining issues is welcome (even a report of non-reproducibility of the issue, with dmesg and Xorg.log).

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Gregoire, I've learned that NetBSD philosophy recommends adding code only when it works properly. If it were Linux, it would already be incorporated. Thanks god it is not and I understand your concerns.

Unfortunately I don't have more hardware to test the code. I also have an old i386 laptop (i915GM) in which everything also works perfectly.

I suppose there is no way to separate VGA output code from the LCD panel one, right? If so we could incorporate only the part that works and make decent X experience without outputting (which was crucial for my stay with NetBSD - if I couldn't hack the code and run X acceleration, I would need to move back to Linux).

Thanks for the help and sorry about disturbances.
Arthur

PS: If you are not knowledgeable people, I'll start to cry about my own situation.

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