Re: [RFC] Deprecation and removal of the drm2 driver
Warner Losh <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.os.freebsd.current,gmane.os.freebsd.devel.x11 |
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| Message-ID | <CANCZdfoMrFCyPteChSWgfYRY-uOyazzR0ZbYvp_OVmXRTe-Hqw@mail.gmail.com> |
On Fri, May 18, 2018 at 1:30 PM, Steve Kargl < [email protected]> wrote: > 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 "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@ > freebsd.org" > > > > > > > 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. > So do people use i386 for desktop? And need the latest KMS stuff? Warner _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"