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Date:      Wed, 30 May 2018 02:52:08 +0200
From:      Mateusz Piotrowski <0mp@FreeBSD.org>
To:        "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd-rwg@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net>
Cc:        Niclas Zeising <zeising@freebsd.org>, freebsd-x11@freebsd.org, freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: [RFC] Deprecation and removal of the drm2 driver
Message-ID:  <20180530025208.7e966684@oxy>
In-Reply-To: <201805300039.w4U0dvPx067743@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net>
References:  <20180529230131.211ff1da@oxy> <201805300039.w4U0dvPx067743@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net>

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On Tue, 29 May 2018 17:39:57 -0700 (PDT)
"Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd-rwg@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net> wrote:

>> Let's also remember about our handbooks and those two wiki page:
>>  * https://wiki.freebsd.org/Graphics
>>  * https://wiki.freebsd.org/Graphics/FAQ
>This one has a bit rot on this claim:
>	"The i915kms kernel-side driver is already built into the
>	 generic FreeBSD kernel. No need to install anything. '
>
>That is slightly miss leading, it is not "built into the generic",
>it is avaliable as a module, at least on 11 and 12, not sure on
>10 as I dont have 10 running any place anymore.

Good catch! Thanks.



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