Date: Fri, 18 May 2018 12:12:43 -0700 From: Cy Schubert <Cy.Schubert@cschubert.com> To: "freebsd-x11@freebsd.org" <freebsd-x11@freebsd.org>, "freebsd-current@freebsd.org" <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: [RFC] Deprecation and removal of the drm2 driver Message-ID: <20180518191239.AC74AB5D@spqr.komquats.com>
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The port doesn't support i386. --- Sent using a tiny phone keyboard. Apologies for any typos and autocorrect. Also, this old phone only supports top post. Apologies. Cy Schubert <Cy.Schubert@cschubert.com> or <cy@freebsd.org> The need of the many outweighs the greed of the few. --- -----Original Message----- From: Niclas Zeising Sent: 18/05/2018 11:00 To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: [RFC] Deprecation and removal of the drm2 driver [ Cross posted to freebsd-current@ and freebsd-x11@. Please respect =0A= reply-to and send all replies to freebsd-x11@. Thanks! ]=0A= =0A= =0A= Hi!=0A= I propose that we remove the old drm2 driver (sys/dev/drm2) from =0A= FreeBSD. I suggest the driver is marked as deprecated in 11.x and =0A= removed from 12.0, as was done for other drivers recently. Some =0A= background and rationale:=0A= =0A= The drm2 driver was the original port of a KMS driver to FreeBSD. It =0A= was done by Konstantin Belousov to support Intel graphics cards, and =0A= later extended by Jean-S=C3=A9bastien P=C3=A9dron as well as Konstantin to = match =0A= what's in Linux 3.8. This included unstable support from Haswell, but =0A= nothing newer than that.=0A= =0A= For quite some time now we have had the graphics/drm-stable-kmod and =0A= graphics/drm-next-kmods which provides support for modern AMD and Intel =0A= graphics cards. These ports, together with the linuxkpi, or lkpi, has =0A= made it significantly easier to port and update our graphics drivers. =0A= Further, these new drivers cover the same drivers as the old drm2 driver.= =0A= =0A= What does the community think? Is there anyone still using the drm2 =0A= driver on 12-CURRENT? If so, what is preventing you from switching to =0A= the port?=0A= =0A= Thank you=0A= Regards=0A= -- =0A= Niclas Zeising=0A= FreeBSD x11/graphics team=0A= _______________________________________________=0A= freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list=0A= https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current=0A= To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"= =0A=
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