Re: [RFC] Deprecation and removal of the drm2 driver
"Rodney W. Grimes" <[email protected]>
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[ Charset UTF-8 unsupported, converting... ] > On Tue, 29 May 2018 21:28:49 +0200 > Niclas Zeising <[email protected]> wrote: > > >On 05/18/18 19:58, Niclas Zeising wrote: > >> [ Cross posted to freebsd-current@ and freebsd-x11@.? Please respect > >> reply-to and send all replies to freebsd-x11@.? Thanks! ] > >> > >> [...] > >> > >> 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? > >> > > > > > >Wow, this blew up quite a lot bigger than I anticipated. I'll try to > >summarize the discussion a bit below and then suggest a way forward. > > > > [...] > > > >To move forward, we'll do the following: Note that this is for current > >only. > >We take the drm and drm2 drivers and make a port for it, maintained by > >the graphics team (x11@). After a transition period, then the drivers > >are removed from base. At the same time, pkg-messages are added to > >relevant places to point people to the various available drm drivers. > > Let's also remember about our handbooks and those two wiki page: > * https://wiki.freebsd.org/Graphics > * https://wiki.freebsd.org/Graphics/FAQ This one has a bit rot on this claim: "The i915kms kernel-side driver is already built into the generic FreeBSD kernel. No need to install anything. ' That is slightly miss leading, it is not "built into the generic", it is avaliable as a module, at least on 11 and 12, not sure on 10 as I dont have 10 running any place anymore. -- Rod Grimes [email protected] _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-x11 To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"