Re: DRM removal soon
Steve Kargl <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.os.freebsd.devel.x11,gmane.os.freebsd.architechture |
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On Thu, Feb 28, 2019 at 10:49:51AM -0800, Cy Schubert wrote: > 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. > > > > > 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? > drm-legacy-kmd has already been *depreciated*? Perhaps, you meant deprecated. :) Hopefully, never. drm-current-kmod locks up my laptop. drm-legacy-kmod works. -- Steve _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-x11 To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"