Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2019 12:15:41 +0000 From: Johannes Lundberg <johalun0@gmail.com> To: Yoshihiro Ota <ota@j.email.ne.jp> Cc: FreeBSD X11 mailing list <freebsd-x11@freebsd.org>, Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>, "freebsd-arch@freebsd.org" <arch@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: DRM removal soon Message-ID: <CAECmPwuJp1vUp4zGA5QeO2zhsbAPZO54LFnjTGThf7Sy-2=PVw@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20190223003126.4aec5a01b77ec9bf9ea0992a@j.email.ne.jp> References: <CANCZdfptG6hwdDc=RFMUA%2BfA7eMijPycY24dcqPLi7aP-whR-A@mail.gmail.com> <20190223003126.4aec5a01b77ec9bf9ea0992a@j.email.ne.jp>
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On Sat, Feb 23, 2019 at 12:05 Yoshihiro Ota <ota@j.email.ne.jp> wrote: > Hi, > > How does this impact VMWare users? > I couldn't find much of documents. Hi Not at all. FreeBSD does not have kernel side drm drivers for running as guest in virtual machines (yet). > > I run few FreeBSD versions on MacBook VMWare. > > Do we have a different driver for VMWare or go by MacBook's? > > I looked at dmesg of another laptop and that reports "Radeon". > However, I don't find any "drm" in FreeBSD VMWare dmesg at all. > I'm not sure which driver FreeBSD has been picking up. > > Thanks, > Hiro > > On Thu, 14 Feb 2019 09:59:52 -0700 > Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> wrote: > > > The parts of drm that we're removing are up for review: > > https://reviews.freebsd.org/D19196 > > > > Since the drm-legacy-kmod or the drm-kmod packages seem to be stable and > > working well for most people, the time has come to finish the removal of > > most of the drm code in FreeBSD. > > > > The intel and radeon drivers will be removed. The ability to build things > > as a module will be removed. Some bits will remain for the TEGRA arm > board, > > since the transition from the drm code base isn't as straight forward as > it > > was for the intel and amd drivers (the effort to emulate the kernel > > environment on arm is significantly higher than x86 because in addition > to > > programming to the GPU, clocks, power regulators, etc need to be > programmed > > as well. The interfaces here are not standardized and different greatly > > between FreeBSD and Linux). > > > > Absent any significant last minute issue, it is my intention to commit > this > > change on Feb 21st, which is 20 days later than had been previously > > announced. > > > > Warner > > _______________________________________________ > > freebsd-arch@freebsd.org mailing list > > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-arch > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-arch-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-x11@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-x11 > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-x11-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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