Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2010 13:00:10 +0100 From: Michal Varga <varga.michal@gmail.com> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Cc: rnoland@FreeBSD.org Subject: Nouveau Starts Dropping Non-KMS Support Message-ID: <3f1fd1ea1001120400x58f5f4e6w5a8249dd53e8516@mail.gmail.com>
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Basically, this: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Nzg3MA ---snip--- Red Hat's Ben Skeggs though has started deleting non-KMS code that is trimming this NVIDIA X.Org driver by thousands of lines of code. While user-space mode-setting will no longer work, kernel mode-setting is the superior solution and is the future. Intel had also recently dropped support for user-space mode-setting. ---snip--- Does anyone (Robert, probably) know, how this will affect FreeBSD in the near and well, eventually distant future? I mean, I guess this one typical linux user's comment from Phoronix discussion probably sums it all, but still, it's hard not to laugh (hysterically): "Well, If portability stands in the way of progress, I say to hell with portability." Well anyway, are we going to lose Nouveau yet before we even properly got it, or are there any plans to workaround this "issue"? I mean, last I heard KMS in FreeBSD is not going to happen for years (if ever), so what other options are still open? m.
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