Re: [RFC] Deprecation and removal of the drm2 driver
Slawa Olhovchenkov <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.os.freebsd.devel.x11,gmane.os.freebsd.current |
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On Fri, May 18, 2018 at 07:58:10PM +0200, Niclas Zeising wrote: > [ Cross posted to freebsd-current@ and freebsd-x11@. Please respect > reply-to and send all replies to freebsd-x11@. Thanks! ] > > > Hi! > 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 What about old graphics card? I am have notebook w/ i945 chipset, is this supported by graphics/drm-*? And what about nvidia? (sorry, I am not developer this drivers, I am just user, I am don't know what need for nvidia work etc) > 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? _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-x11 To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"