Re: [RFC] Deprecation and removal of the drm2 driver
Oliver Pinter <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.os.freebsd.devel.x11,gmane.os.freebsd.current |
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| Message-ID | <CAPQ4ffvd1da+iMXtPfz+xETqPZwgmNoBa5yZMSF26qPMkSD2qQ@mail.gmail.com> |
On Sunday, May 20, 2018, Niclas Zeising <[email protected]> wrote: > On 05/20/18 18:40, Steve Kargl wrote: > >> On Fri, May 18, 2018 at 02:03:32PM -0600, Warner Losh wrote: >> >>> 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: >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> 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? >>> >>> >> Just a data point. I had to replace the dead disk in my laptop, >> and after 2 days of doing a re-install and update of -current >> on a shiny new SSD. >> >> Before loading Xorg. >> >> % kldstat >> Id Refs Address Size Name >> 1 7 0x800000 1ac31d4 kernel >> 2 1 0x1e9ae000 5000 ums.ko >> 3 1 0x1e9b9000 4000 uhid.ko >> >> After starting Xorg without an xorg.conf in /etc/X11. >> >> Id Refs Address Size Name >> 1 27 0x800000 1ac31d4 kernel >> 2 1 0x1e9ae000 5000 ums.ko >> 3 1 0x1e9b9000 4000 uhid.ko >> 4 1 0x1eaa9000 96000 i915kms.ko >> 5 1 0x1eb40000 4a000 drm2.ko >> 6 4 0x1eb8b000 5000 iicbus.ko >> 7 1 0x1ebc9000 3000 iic.ko >> 8 1 0x1ebcf000 4000 iicbb.ko >> >> So, drm2.ko and i915kms.ko are loaded automatically. It is >> unclear why functionality that works should be removed. >> >> xwininfo shows >> >> Width: 1400 >> Height: 1050 >> Depth: 24 >> Visual: 0x21 >> >> > One of the reasons for the deprecation and removal of the drm2 bits is > that they prevent us from automatically loading the drm-next/stable-kmod > kernel modules, since the two collide. > Regards Then it wold be better to resolve this problem, rather then removing a working solution. What's about module versioning what in other cases works? > -- > Niclas > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]" > _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-x11 To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"