Re: [RFC] Deprecation and removal of the drm2 driver

From: Steve Kargl <sgk_at_troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
Date: Mon, 21 May 2018 13:32:10 -0700
On Mon, May 21, 2018 at 01:16:12PM -0700, K. Macy wrote:
> On Mon, May 21, 2018 at 10:07 AM, Steve Kargl
> <sgk_at_troutmask.apl.washington.edu> wrote:
> > On Mon, May 21, 2018 at 02:40:50AM +0300, Rozhuk Ivan wrote:
> >> On Sun, 20 May 2018 21:10:28 +0200
> >> Oliver Pinter <oliver.pinter_at_hardenedbsd.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>>> One of the reasons for the deprecation and removal of the drm2 bits
>>>>> is that they prevent us from automatically loading the
>>>>> drm-next/stable-kmod kernel modules, since the two collide.
>>>>> Regards
>>>>
>>>> Then it wold be better to resolve this problem, rather then removing a
>>>> working solution. What's about module versioning what in other cases
>>>> works?
>>>
>>> May be just move old drm2 to ports?
>>
>> Why?  "If it isn't broken, why fix it?"
>>
>> The conflict affects x86_64-*-freebsd aka amd64.  The
>> conflict does not affect any other architecture.  The
>> Makefile infrastructure can use MACHINE_ARCH to exclude
>> drm2 from build of amd64.
>>
> <strawman ... clipped>

Wasn't a strawman.  Is it that difficult to use
the Makefile infrastructure to exclude old drm2
on amd64?

-- 
Steve
Received on Mon May 21 2018 - 18:32:17 UTC

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