Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2020 18:36:50 +0200 From: Niclas Zeising <zeising@freebsd.org> To: George Mitchell <george+freebsd@m5p.com>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: deprecation of drm-legacy-kmod Message-ID: <987e3e12-e01f-68c5-cf33-da6d6026c0eb@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <82a5b9c8-b331-1cb9-7bcd-8525dcb345bf@m5p.com> References: <e770c456-c6fa-924c-0f1e-1d69ce80846f@freebsd.org> <82a5b9c8-b331-1cb9-7bcd-8525dcb345bf@m5p.com>
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On 2020-08-25 00:32, George Mitchell wrote: > On 2020-08-24 18:21, Niclas Zeising wrote: >> [ cross posted across several mailing lists, please respect reply-to ] >> >> Hi! >> >> It is time to deprecate drm-legacy-kmod [...] it is time for it to go. >> >> The driver will remain for a transition period.=C2=A0 For FreeBSD 13-C= URRENT, >> this will be fairly short, as there are changes to FreeBSD base that >> breaks the drivers.=C2=A0 For FreeBSD 12, the driver will remain a bit >> longer, to ease in transition.=C2=A0 On FreeBSD 12, there is also the = option >> of using the graphics drivers in base, although those are supported on= a >> best-effort basis only. [...] > My secret decoder ring is telling me the implicit message here > (along with a recent Qt5 "upgrade") is that the FreeBSD home page > explicit statement that the 11.3 and 11.4 releases of FreeBSD are > in production status is a bit of a lie. I know I'm going to have > to upgrade to 12 sooner or later, but I just don't have a warm, > fuzzy feeling about that right now. >=20 > Forgive me for venting ... -- George >=20 The legacy drm drivers are available in base in 11 if you need them, in=20 fact, the drm-legacy-kmod port was never available on FreeBSD 11. You=20 can also use drm-kmod on FreeBSD 11. From a desktop standpoint, yes, FreeBSD 11 is getting old, and is=20 getting harder and harder to maintain, and there will be no driver=20 updates to support newer GPUs on 11 for instance. Currently there are=20 no plans to remove any support for running FreeBSD 11 on the desktop. Regards --=20 Niclas Zeising
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