In message <a7sv-ebj7-wny_at_FreeBSD.org>, Jan Beich writes: > Slawa Olhovchenkov <slw_at_zxy.spb.ru> writes: > > > On Fri, May 18, 2018 at 07:58:10PM +0200, Niclas Zeising wrote: > > > >> [ Cross posted to freebsd-current_at_ and freebsd-x11_at_. Please respect > >> reply-to and send all replies to freebsd-x11_at_. Thanks! ] > >> > >> > >> Hi! > >> 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 > > > > What about old graphics card? I am have notebook w/ i945 chipset, is > > this supported by graphics/drm-*? > > > > And what about nvidia? > > (sorry, I am not developer this drivers, I am just user, I am don't > > know what need for nvidia work etc) > > NVIDIA dropped 32bit driver since 396.* series. None of x11/nvidia-driver* > currently depend on either drm.ko or drm2.ko. However, Linux driver > appears to depend on DRM/KMS since 364.12. I think that if we want to still keep i386 viable, maybe some effort needs to be put into 915resolution to help VESA look somewhat reasonable. IIRC, as it's been a long time since I've looked at this, a person will need a custom xorg.conf. However IIRC that model breaks if person switches between a laptop monitor and an external monitor. The problem is fixable however I didn't have a open evening to look at it when I did. The 915resolution option isn't exactly available to those unwilling or unable to tinker a little. -- Cheers, Cy Schubert <Cy.Schubert_at_cschubert.com> FreeBSD UNIX: <cy_at_FreeBSD.org> Web: http://www.FreeBSD.org The need of the many outweighs the greed of the few.Received on Sun May 20 2018 - 12:36:32 UTC
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