Re: drm / drm2 removal in 12

Isn't Intel supposed to be working on a native drm driver for FreeBSD?

https://bwidawsk.net/blog/index.php/2018/06/i965-compiler-architecture-from-2015/

On Sat, Aug 25, 2018 at 12:19 AM, Matthew Macy <mmacy_at_freebsd.org> wrote:

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> On Fri, Aug 24, 2018 at 14:53 Ali <aliovx_at_gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Tue, Aug 21, 2018 at 06:54:54PM -0700, Matthew Macy wrote:
>> > Just in case anyone misses the change to UPDATING:
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>> > 20180821:
>> >         drm and drm2 have been removed. Users on powerpc, 32-bit
>> hardware,
>> >         or with GPUs predating Radeon and i915 will need to install the
>> >         graphics/drm-legacy-kmod. All other users should be able to use
>> >         one of the LinuxKPI-based ports: graphics/drm-stable-kmod,
>> >         graphics/drm-next-kmod, graphics/drm-devel-kmod.
>> > Note that this applies only to 12.
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>> I see that The removal of drm and drm2 has been reverted on svn. Could
>> you please kindly share the reasons behind the re-inclusion?
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> I can’t really give the blow by blow of internal project drama, but the
> gist of it is that “best practices” (which are not yet actually documented
> anywhere that I’ve seen) were not followed with regards to the deprecation
> process. Warner and others believe that we can address the objectives of
> the drm removal (improving the user experience and communicating that
> drm/drm2 are _completely_ unsupported apart from continuing to compile)
> through less disruptive means. I am only acting as a lightning rod and
> representative of the graphics team and so have done an inadequate job of
> tracking their activities with respect to project timelines. As a result of
> this misunderstanding Johannes Lundberg will be sponsored for a bit and
> will be able to be involved in internal discussions that impact his work.
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> Our only continued frustration is that we were never given any guidance by
> RE or core on said “best practices” when the discussion was taking place in
> May and then those groups behaved as if this were a surprise when the
> removal happened. I’m cautiously optimistic that this well expedite
> improving communications on those matters.
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> Cheers.
> -M
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