Non-upstreamed drivers from NetBSD

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On Thu, Jan 30, 2025 at 01:29:52PM +0100, Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult wrote:
> > I'd assume you wanted to mirror the repositories on
> > git.freedesktop.org,
> 
> Not necessarily, but at least let xorg-testing build all these
> drivers on NetBSD target.
> 
> > since we keep everything in a cvs monorepo.
> > From there we can work on other platforms and build machinery.
> 
> CVS and monorepo ? Seriously ? Why ?
> I really would never ever go back to such a complicated and fragile
> tool like CVS (nor SVN) anymore ...
> 
> I'm actually open to reintegrate drivers into Xorg tree (we already
> have some in-tree), because we don't really have an *specified* API,
> which makes refactoring unnecessarily hard (

NetBSD's "src" repository is the oldest continuously-developed
version control repository on the internet (since march 1993),
and there's a lot of legacy there that makes switching to
anything else hard. Any way we go, we'll likely be keeping
the monorepo-with-separate-build-machinery model.

The difference in the way we do things from the modern
consensus is why I suggested handing the code over to freedesktop. ;)