From owner-freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Sun May 20 17:01:20 2018 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-x11@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C50BEEE6D43; Sun, 20 May 2018 17:01:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu) Received: from troutmask.apl.washington.edu (troutmask.apl.washington.edu [128.95.76.21]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "troutmask", Issuer "troutmask" (not verified)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 5FEDD86345; Sun, 20 May 2018 17:01:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu) Received: from troutmask.apl.washington.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by troutmask.apl.washington.edu (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTPS id w4KH19lY006607 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=NO); Sun, 20 May 2018 10:01:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu) Received: (from sgk@localhost) by troutmask.apl.washington.edu (8.15.2/8.15.2/Submit) id w4KH19Mw006606; Sun, 20 May 2018 10:01:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sgk) Date: Sun, 20 May 2018 10:01:09 -0700 From: Steve Kargl To: Niclas Zeising Cc: Warner Losh , FreeBSD X11 mailing list , Current FreeBSD Subject: Re: [RFC] Deprecation and removal of the drm2 driver Message-ID: <20180520170109.GA6488@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> Reply-To: sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu References: <3a5edc5c-3caa-830b-4bd9-53ff52feb8a7@freebsd.org> <20180518193009.GA88432@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <20180520164011.GA6276@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <88843bfb-34de-382c-9409-83f9ad54c8c4@daemonic.se> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <88843bfb-34de-382c-9409-83f9ad54c8c4@daemonic.se> User-Agent: Mutt/1.9.2 (2017-12-15) X-BeenThere: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.26 Precedence: list List-Id: X11 on FreeBSD -- maintaining and support List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 20 May 2018 17:01:21 -0000 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