xf86-video-intel is broken and with MRs disables we can't fix it

[Ville Syrjälä]

On Fri, Feb 07, 2025 at 08:57:34PM +0200, Povilas Kanapickas wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> xf86-video-intel driver is currently cannot be compiled with released
> versions of X server. Simple reproduction steps: create Debian Bookworm
> container, download module sources and all required dependencies and try
> to build.

Builds fine on my Gentoo boxes here. What are the actual issues
you are seeing?

> 
> Debian Bookworm is pretty much the least exciting configuration
> possible. And the fact that xf86-video-intel cannot be compiled there is
> not good.
> 
> For almost any other driver this is not a problem, because it is
> possible to create a merge request on gitlab.freedesktop.org. Eventually
> simple maintenance and build-related merge requests are merged. However
> in the case of Intel driver, merge requests are disabled and the
> recommended way to submit patches is via intel-gfx at lists.freedesktop.org
> mailing list. Unfortunately, patches submitted so far are ignored there.

I've not seen any patches on the list. Care to point them out?

> 
> Given that the last commit to xf86-video-intel was 22 months ago, I
> suspect there's little interest from Intel to spend time maintaining the
> project.

You must be looking at some stale repo. My last commit was 
commit ce811e78882d9f31636351dfe65351f4ded52c74
Author:     Ville Syrjälä <ville.syrjala at linux.intel.com>
AuthorDate: Sat Mar 18 15:45:44 2023 +0200
Commit:     Ville Syrjälä <ville.syrjala at linux.intel.com>
CommitDate: Tue May 7 00:32:24 2024 +0300

> 
> What do you think about opening up merge requests on the repository so
> that at least the driver can be brought back to compilable state? Does
> anyone have other ideas how the current situation could be resolved?

I wouldn't want to deal with mrs for any high volume stuff, but
since this only gets the occasional fix I guess it could work.

-- 
Ville Syrjälä
Intel