Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2019 11:15:11 -0800 From: Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> To: Cy Schubert <Cy.Schubert@cschubert.com> Cc: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org, Yoshihiro Ota <ota@j.email.ne.jp>, Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>, "freebsd-arch@freebsd.org" <arch@freebsd.org>, FreeBSD X11 mailing list <freebsd-x11@freebsd.org>, greg@unrelenting.technology Subject: Re: DRM removal soon Message-ID: <20190228191511.GA18089@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <603D07F7-CA80-40C6-8D55-3DC6EABE667E@cschubert.com> References: <CANCZdfptG6hwdDc=RFMUA%2BfA7eMijPycY24dcqPLi7aP-whR-A@mail.gmail.com> <20190223003126.4aec5a01b77ec9bf9ea0992a@j.email.ne.jp> <1550926557.1795.0@unrelenting.technology> <20190223234351.0addf9de71953eb31136322b@j.email.ne.jp> <CANCZdfr0kkFGxDxETwjj2tKb=vZCSHrQPRCobYr0bz7EcN16dw@mail.gmail.com> <20190228004220.fb3ed982fa8a34252ec19bb5@j.email.ne.jp> <603D07F7-CA80-40C6-8D55-3DC6EABE667E@cschubert.com>
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On Thu, Feb 28, 2019 at 10:49:51AM -0800, Cy Schubert wrote: > On February 27, 2019 9:42:20 PM PST, Yoshihiro Ota <ota@j.email.ne.jp> wrote: > >On Sun, 24 Feb 2019 10:24:15 -0700 > >Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> wrote: > > > >> On Sun, Feb 24, 2019, 3:31 AM Yoshihiro Ota <ota@j.email.ne.jp> > >wrote: > >> > >> I also found that running kldstat was the easiest way to find which > >of > >> > driver to use instead of dmesg. > >> > > >> > >> Is this a suggestion for changing the drm-kmod package output? Or > >just a > >> helpful hint for others? > >> > >> Tanks again. > >> > >> Warner > > > >This is a helpful hint for others and a suggestion to update documents. > > > >I had read > >https://www.freebsd.org/releases/12.0R/relnotes.html#hardware-graphics > >and https://wiki.freebsd.org/Graphics before I started. I had 4 old > >laptops and 1 vmawre and I didn't remember which machine uses which CPU > >:) > >If the doc can mention to check kldstat output and go to corresponding > >section, that will make steps easier. > > > >I converted to the port based driver for 4 psychical machines and 1 > >vmware machine (although vmware do not use neither of driver.) All of > >them run 12.0-RELEASE. All of them start X and work fine. I will > >likely get to 13-CURRENT a lot later as I ran 13-CURRENT without X and > >in vmware most of times. > > > > > The ports work as advertised. IMO graphics/drm-legacy should be > depreciated sooner than later. I would expect the graphics team > could better spend their time and energy on drm-current, which > btw works perfectly on my old laptop converted to i386 testbed, > than maintaining old bitrot. When can we expect drm-legacy to > finally be removed from ports? > drm-legacy-kmd has already been *depreciated*? Perhaps, you meant deprecated. :) Hopefully, never. drm-current-kmod locks up my laptop. drm-legacy-kmod works. -- Steve
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