Re: [RFC] Deprecation and removal of the drm2 driver
Steve Kargl <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.os.freebsd.devel.x11,gmane.os.freebsd.current |
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On Fri, May 18, 2018 at 09:14:24PM +0200, Andreas Nilsson wrote: > On Fri, May 18, 2018, 20:00 Niclas Zeising <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I propose that we remove the old drm2 driver (sys/dev/drm2) from > > FreeBSD. I suggest the driver is marked as deprecated in 11.x and > > removed from 12.0, as was done for other drivers recently. Some > > background and rationale: > > > > The drm2 driver was the original port of a KMS driver to FreeBSD. It > > was done by Konstantin Belousov to support Intel graphics cards, and > > later extended by Jean-Sébastien Pédron as well as Konstantin to match > > what's in Linux 3.8. This included unstable support from Haswell, but > > nothing newer than that. > > > > For quite some time now we have had the graphics/drm-stable-kmod and > > graphics/drm-next-kmods which provides support for modern AMD and Intel > > graphics cards. These ports, together with the linuxkpi, or lkpi, has > > made it significantly easier to port and update our graphics drivers. > > Further, these new drivers cover the same drivers as the old drm2 driver. > > > > What does the community think? Is there anyone still using the drm2 > > driver on 12-CURRENT? If so, what is preventing you from switching to > > the port? > > > > Thank you > > Regards > > -- > > Niclas Zeising > > FreeBSD x11/graphics team > > _______________________________________________ > > [email protected] mailing list > > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]" > > > > Sounds good ( deprecate resp remove ). It causes more confusion and > problems and it solves nothing. > Check the Makefiles % more /usr/ports/graphics/drm-next-kmod/Makefile ONLY_FOR_ARCHS= amd64 ONLY_FOR_ARCHS_REASON= the new KMS components are only supported on amd64 Not to ia32 friendly. -- Steve 20170425 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWUpyCsUKR4 20161221 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IbCHE-hONow _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-x11 To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"