Re: [RFC] Deprecation and removal of the drm2 driver
Steve Kargl <[email protected]>
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On Mon, May 21, 2018 at 01:16:12PM -0700, K. Macy wrote: > On Mon, May 21, 2018 at 10:07 AM, Steve Kargl > <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Mon, May 21, 2018 at 02:40:50AM +0300, Rozhuk Ivan wrote: > >> On Sun, 20 May 2018 21:10:28 +0200 > >> Oliver Pinter <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>>> 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? >>> >>> May be just move old drm2 to ports? >> >> Why? "If it isn't broken, why fix it?" >> >> The conflict affects x86_64-*-freebsd aka amd64. The >> conflict does not affect any other architecture. The >> Makefile infrastructure can use MACHINE_ARCH to exclude >> drm2 from build of amd64. >> > <strawman ... clipped> Wasn't a strawman. Is it that difficult to use the Makefile infrastructure to exclude old drm2 on amd64? -- Steve _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-x11 To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"