Re: DRM removal soon

Cy Schubert <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.x11,gmane.os.freebsd.architechture
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On February 27, 2019 9:42:20 PM PST, Yoshihiro Ota <[email protected]> wrote:
>On Sun, 24 Feb 2019 10:24:15 -0700
>Warner Losh <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> On Sun, Feb 24, 2019, 3:31 AM Yoshihiro Ota <[email protected]>
>wrote:
>> 
>> I also found that running kldstat was the easiest way to find which
>of
>> > driver to use instead of dmesg.
>> >
>> 
>> Is this a suggestion for changing the drm-kmod package output? Or
>just a
>> helpful hint for others?
>> 
>> Tanks again.
>> 
>> Warner
>
>This is a helpful hint for others and a suggestion to update documents.
>
>I had read
>https://www.freebsd.org/releases/12.0R/relnotes.html#hardware-graphics
>and https://wiki.freebsd.org/Graphics before I started.  I had 4 old
>laptops and 1 vmawre and I didn't remember which machine uses which CPU
>:)
>If the doc can mention to check kldstat output and go to corresponding
>section, that will make steps easier.
>
>I converted to the port based driver for 4 psychical machines and 1
>vmware machine (although vmware do not use neither of driver.)  All of
>them run 12.0-RELEASE.  All of them start X and work fine.  I will
>likely get to 13-CURRENT a lot later as I ran 13-CURRENT without X and
>in vmware most of times.
>
>
>
>Hiro
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The ports work as advertised.  IMO graphics/drm-legacy should be depreciated sooner than later. I would expect the graphics team could better spend their time and energy on drm-current, which btw works perfectly on my old laptop converted to i386 testbed, than maintaining old bitrot. When can we expect drm-legacy to finally be removed from ports?

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Cheers,
Cy Schubert <[email protected]>
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