Re: pkg/50067: x11/xf86-video-ati dports patch-src_radeon__kms.c for newer DragonFly and FreeBSD

[David Shao <davshao%gmail.com@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR pkg/50067; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: David Shao <davshao%gmail.com@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: pkg/50067: x11/xf86-video-ati dports patch-src_radeon__kms.c for
 newer DragonFly and FreeBSD
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2015 20:29:45 -0700

 On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 2:35 AM, Thomas Klausner <wiz%netbsd.org@localhost> wrote:
 > The following reply was made to PR pkg/50067; it has been noted by GNATS.
 >
 > From: Thomas Klausner <wiz%NetBSD.org@localhost>
 > To: NetBSD bugtracking <gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost>
 > Cc:
 > Subject: Re: pkg/50067: x11/xf86-video-ati dports patch-src_radeon__kms.c for
 >  newer DragonFly and FreeBSD
 > Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2015 11:33:35 +0200
 >
 >  Do you have any idea if this has been included in upstream?
 >  I'd really like to avoid having new xorg patches in pkgsrc.
 >   Thomas
 
 I believe this patch, which is in DragonFly dports and FreeBSD ports,
 has no chance to be committed upstream.
 
 One huge problem is that DragonFly and FreeBSD 10.1 are not in step
 with almost any other OS in ease of loading the radeon kernel modules
 without such code, so why should upstream change the code for what it
 sees are laggards.
 
 Also the original radeon_kms.c file has no explicit OS conditional
 code, so it seems the developers have worked very hard to have the
 conditionals at most in the header or configure files.
 
 Nevertheless the patch is essential to have a reasonable user
 experience with a Radeon graphics card on either FreeBSD 10.1 or
 DragonFly.  (I have not tested pkgsrc with FreeBSD 10 stable or beyond
 which has Newcons.)