Date: Sun, 3 Sep 2017 17:18:11 +0300 From: Slawa Olhovchenkov <slw@zxy.spb.ru> To: Johannes M Dieterich <jmd@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [RFC] future of drm1 in base Message-ID: <20170903141811.GB9110@zxy.spb.ru> In-Reply-To: <20170902220257.6667280e@manray.ogolem.org> References: <20170902220257.6667280e@manray.ogolem.org>
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On Sat, Sep 02, 2017 at 10:02:57PM -0400, Johannes M Dieterich wrote: > Dear current/x11, > > please CC me on responses. > > I am writing you on behalf of the FreeBSDDesktop team concerning the > future of drm1 in base. > > drm1 in base supports the following GPUs: > * 3dfx Banshee/Voodoo3+ (tdfx) > * ATI Rage 128 (r128) > * ATI Rage Pro (mach64) > * Matrox G200/G400 (mga) > * Savage3D/MX/IX, Savage4, SuperSavage, Twister, ProSavage[DDR] (savage) > * SIS 300/630/540 and XGI V3XE/V5/V8 (sis) > * VIA Unichrome / Pro (via) > > Since their original introduction up to 2010 these drivers have mostly > been maintained as part of larger cleanups. The newest hardware drm1 > supports dates from 2004, if I am not mistaken, and most of the > hardware is AGP-based. Some of this hardware is part of more modern servers platforms (ex: http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeon/C600/X9DRT-F.cfm) > With the introduction of graphics/drm-next-kmod which brings its own > drm.ko following the Linux notation, we are facing collisions between > these old drivers' drm.ko and the newer one. > > We would like to hear if anybody still runs CURRENT on machines housing > the above GPUs and relies on drm1. > > If there are still a significant number of people running CURRENT on > this hardware in production, we would be willing to make a > graphics/drm-legacy-kmod port. > > Thanks, > > the FreeBSDDesktop team > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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