Obtaining Xorg DDX commit privilege

[Kevin Brace]

Hi Connor,

Since the development of r128 DDX has stalled for about two years, I was looking to obtain xf86-video-* DDX commit privilege so that I can add KMS support to r128 DDX.
Although some additional work remain (function renaming and removal of unused code), I have gotten to the point where unaccelerated OpenChrome DDX with KMS via OpenChrome DRM I feel is good enough for Linux kernel mainline tree inclusion even without living in the staging tree for a while.
I have managed 3 releases of OpenChrome DDX in the past 2 years with its reliability progressively improving with each new release.
Hence, I now have a little more time to invest in underserved graphics device drivers other than OpenChrome.
I did ask freedesktop.org to grant me commit privilege to xf86-video-* DDX repositories, but I have yet to hear from them.

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=106605

Regarding patch #5, it is based on the observation that starting X Server with probing option does not really do anything inside PreInit recall back, hence, there is no need to probe the monitor via VBE.
Furthermore, it is intentionally made to not do anything if the user is using PowerPC (i.e., PowerMac), so I figured, why not do anything even if we are using an x86 processor?
In general, I am looking to reduce the calls to VBE, and I think r128 should ultimately only handle DDX UMS and DRM KMS at most.
In other words, VBE and FBDEV should not be used.

Kevin Brace
Brace Computer Laboratory blog
https://bracecomputerlab.com


> Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2018 at 8:16 PM
> From: "Connor Behan" <connor.behan at gmail.com>
> To: "Michel Dänzer" <michel at daenzer.net>, "Kevin Brace" <kevinbrace at gmx.com>
> Cc: xorg-devel at lists.x.org
> Subject: Re: Obtaining Xorg DDX commit privilege
>
> On 2018-06-05 05:33 AM, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> > On 2018-06-05 05:00 AM, Kevin Brace wrote:
> >> I do have OpenChrome related commit privilege and I wanted to extend it to other xf86-video-* DDXs.
> >> I did post several patches over at xorg-driver-ati mailing list if that is what is needed to earn this privilege.
> > Connor Behan has been looking after xf86-video-r128.
> 
> Thanks. I've been meaning to test your patches Kevin. The only one I'm
> nervous about so far is #5 which removes DDC.
> 
>