On Fri, May 18, 2018, 20:00 Niclas Zeising <zeising_at_freebsd.org> 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 > 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. Best regards Andreas >Received on Fri May 18 2018 - 17:14:36 UTC
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