Date: Sun, 20 May 2018 09:40:11 -0700 From: Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> To: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> Cc: Andreas Nilsson <andrnils@gmail.com>, FreeBSD X11 mailing list <freebsd-x11@freebsd.org>, Current FreeBSD <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: [RFC] Deprecation and removal of the drm2 driver Message-ID: <20180520164011.GA6276@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <CANCZdfoMrFCyPteChSWgfYRY-uOyazzR0ZbYvp_OVmXRTe-Hqw@mail.gmail.com> References: <3a5edc5c-3caa-830b-4bd9-53ff52feb8a7@freebsd.org> <CAPS9%2BSv6SDWkbrEZruM4g2%2BOfw4ksvbtiMF=Q_towrMtJrgt1w@mail.gmail.com> <20180518193009.GA88432@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <CANCZdfoMrFCyPteChSWgfYRY-uOyazzR0ZbYvp_OVmXRTe-Hqw@mail.gmail.com>
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On Fri, May 18, 2018 at 02:03:32PM -0600, Warner Losh wrote: > On Fri, May 18, 2018 at 1:30 PM, Steve Kargl < > sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> wrote: > > > On Fri, May 18, 2018 at 09:14:24PM +0200, Andreas Nilsson wrote: > > > On Fri, May 18, 2018, 20:00 Niclas Zeising <zeising@freebsd.org> wrote: > > > > > > > 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: > > > > > > > > > > Sounds good ( deprecate resp remove ). It causes more confusion and > > > problems and it solves nothing. > > > > > > > Check the Makefiles > > > > % more /usr/ports/graphics/drm-next-kmod/Makefile > > > > ONLY_FOR_ARCHS= amd64 > > ONLY_FOR_ARCHS_REASON= the new KMS components are only supported on amd64 > > > > Not to ia32 friendly. > > > > So do people use i386 for desktop? And need the latest KMS stuff? > Just a data point. I had to replace the dead disk in my laptop, and after 2 days of doing a re-install and update of -current on a shiny new SSD. Before loading Xorg. % kldstat Id Refs Address Size Name 1 7 0x800000 1ac31d4 kernel 2 1 0x1e9ae000 5000 ums.ko 3 1 0x1e9b9000 4000 uhid.ko After starting Xorg without an xorg.conf in /etc/X11. Id Refs Address Size Name 1 27 0x800000 1ac31d4 kernel 2 1 0x1e9ae000 5000 ums.ko 3 1 0x1e9b9000 4000 uhid.ko 4 1 0x1eaa9000 96000 i915kms.ko 5 1 0x1eb40000 4a000 drm2.ko 6 4 0x1eb8b000 5000 iicbus.ko 7 1 0x1ebc9000 3000 iic.ko 8 1 0x1ebcf000 4000 iicbb.ko So, drm2.ko and i915kms.ko are loaded automatically. It is unclear why functionality that works should be removed. xwininfo shows Width: 1400 Height: 1050 Depth: 24 Visual: 0x21 -- Steve
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