Date: Sun, 20 May 2018 10:01:09 -0700 From: Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> To: Niclas Zeising <zeising+freebsd@daemonic.se> Cc: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.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: <20180520170109.GA6488@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <88843bfb-34de-382c-9409-83f9ad54c8c4@daemonic.se> 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> <20180520164011.GA6276@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <88843bfb-34de-382c-9409-83f9ad54c8c4@daemonic.se>
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On Sun, May 20, 2018 at 06:47:07PM +0200, Niclas Zeising wrote:
> On 05/20/18 18:40, Steve Kargl wrote:
> > On Fri, May 18, 2018 at 02:03:32PM -0600, Warner Losh wrote:
> >> On Fri, May 18, 2018 at 1:30 PM, Steve Kargl <
> >>>
> >>> % 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.
>
> One of the reasons for the deprecation and removal of the drm2 bits is
> that they prevent us from automatically loading the drm-next/stable-kmod
> kernel modules, since the two collide.
> Regards
They do not collide on non-AMD64 architectures. Is is possible to do
svn diff sys/modules/Makefile
Index: sys/modules/Makefile
===================================================================
--- sys/modules/Makefile (revision 333815)
+++ sys/modules/Makefile (working copy)
@@ -113,7 +113,9 @@
${_dpms} \
${_dpt} \
${_drm} \
+.if ${MACHINE_ARCH} != AMD64
${_drm2} \
+.endif
dummynet \
${_ed} \
${_efirt} \
--
Steve
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