Re: drm-legacy-kmod vs. drm-kmod

Greg V <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.x11
Message-ID <07efa121-fa59-4e90-a519-03f6d6e9def9@localhost> 

Mar 9, 2020 3:36:31 PM Robert Huff <[email protected]>:

> Hello:
> Am I correct in believing the line separating hardware that uses
> drm-kmod from that using drm-legacy-kmod is (more-or-less) set in
> stone?

No GPUs should require legacy. At least on the Intel side – I've tested drm v5.0 on junk as old as the Eee PC 900 which has a GMA 915 (possibly the earliest Intel GPU).

Legacy might be available on more architectures – we haven't tried building modern drm on 32-bit powerpc for example.

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