Re: [RFC] Deprecation and removal of the drm2 driver

On 05/22/18 13:47, dpolyg wrote:
> I have one comment regarding usage of the drm2 on a "legacy" hardware.
> Excuse me in advance if I misunderstand something.
> For the last 2-3 years I'm playing with devices such as small form 
> factor PCs from Shuttle:
> http://global.shuttle.com/products/productsList?categoryId=69
> or from Gigabyte:
> https://www.gigabyte.com/us/Mini-PcBarebone
> or Intel "NUC"s.
> To my experience drm-next doesn't work on lower price (Celeron/Atom) 
> models. Do I missing something?
> Here is concrete example:
> I have a Shuttle DS47: 
> http://global.shuttle.com/main/productsDetail?productId=1718
> running FreeBSD 11.1-RELEASE and drm2.ko loaded + Xorg + compton.
> Having that I made a box with a voice control and ability to make a SIP 
> video call to it from a smartphone (WebRTC) (imagine "Amazon Show" 
> powered by stock FeeBSD) but I never install any drm-next on it. Stock 
> amd64 kernel used. No ports compiled. Only "pkg install ..." + custom 
> code as the most front end.
> After reading this thread I tried to compile drm-next on my DS47 box:
> 
> root@ShuttleD47:/usr/ports/graphics/drm-next-kmod # uname -a
> FreeBSD ShuttleD47 11.1-RELEASE-p10 FreeBSD 11.1-RELEASE-p10 #0: Tue May 
>   8 05:21:56 UTC 2018 
> [email protected]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  amd64
> root@ShuttleD47:/usr/ports/graphics/drm-next-kmod # make
> ===>  drm-next-kmod-4.11.g20180505_1 not supported on 10.x or older, no 
> kernel
> support.
> *** Error code 1
> 
> Stop.
> make: stopped in /usr/ports/graphics/drm-next-kmod
> 
> Why drm-next thinks it lives on a 10.x kernel or older?
> Is such usage case already considered as legacy?
> Is this hardware supported by drm-next?
> https://www.amazon.com/Best-Sellers-Electronics-Mini-Computers/zgbs/electronics/13896591011 
> 


That is most likely a typo, or at least not as good as it should be. 
drm-stable-kmod and drm-next-kmod are supported on CURRENT and will be 
supported on FreeBSD 11.2 (it's supported in stable right now).  Older 
releases will, however, not be supported.  But they still have drm2, I 
will not remove any drivers from releases or from STABLE.
Regards
-- 
Niclas
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