On 18 May, Warner Losh wrote: > On Fri, May 18, 2018 at 1:30 PM, Steve Kargl < > sgk_at_troutmask.apl.washington.edu> wrote: > >> On Fri, May 18, 2018 at 09:14:24PM +0200, Andreas Nilsson wrote: >> > On Fri, May 18, 2018, 20:00 Niclas Zeising <zeising_at_freebsd.org> wrote: >> > >> > > I propose that we remove the old drm2 driver (sys/dev/drm2) from >> > > FreeBSD. I suggest the driver is marked as deprecated in 11.x and >> > > removed from 12.0, as was done for other drivers recently. Some >> > > background and rationale: >> > > >> > > The drm2 driver was the original port of a KMS driver to FreeBSD. It >> > > was done by Konstantin Belousov to support Intel graphics cards, and >> > > later extended by Jean-Sébastien Pédron as well as Konstantin to match >> > > what's in Linux 3.8. This included unstable support from Haswell, but >> > > nothing newer than that. >> > > >> > > For quite some time now we have had the graphics/drm-stable-kmod and >> > > graphics/drm-next-kmods which provides support for modern AMD and Intel >> > > graphics cards. These ports, together with the linuxkpi, or lkpi, has >> > > made it significantly easier to port and update our graphics drivers. >> > > Further, these new drivers cover the same drivers as the old drm2 >> driver. >> > > >> > > 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? >> > > >> > > Thank you >> > > Regards >> > > -- >> > > Niclas Zeising >> > > FreeBSD x11/graphics team >> > > _______________________________________________ >> > > freebsd-current_at_freebsd.org mailing list >> > > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current >> > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe_at_ >> freebsd.org" >> > > >> > >> > Sounds good ( deprecate resp remove ). It causes more confusion and >> > problems and it solves nothing. >> > >> >> Check the Makefiles >> >> % more /usr/ports/graphics/drm-next-kmod/Makefile >> >> ONLY_FOR_ARCHS= amd64 >> ONLY_FOR_ARCHS_REASON= the new KMS components are only supported on amd64 >> >> Not to ia32 friendly. >> > > So do people use i386 for desktop? And need the latest KMS stuff? I use it on my Pentium-M laptop. I don't need the latest KMS stuff, but I do need X11 so that I can use a browser, vncviewer, and a few terminal windows. Falling back to VESA resolution would suck. It's currently running 11.0-STABLE. I'm planning on migrating everything over to 12.0 sometime after 12.0-RELEASE. I have one other i386-class machine, but it only needs a text console. Everything else here is amd64.Received on Fri May 18 2018 - 21:41:55 UTC
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