From owner-freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Fri May 18 19:30:18 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 DFC9CED6CD4; Fri, 18 May 2018 19:30:17 +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 5E56A85890; Fri, 18 May 2018 19:30:17 +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 w4IJU9Xd088465 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=NO); Fri, 18 May 2018 12:30:09 -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 w4IJU9mq088464; Fri, 18 May 2018 12:30:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sgk) Date: Fri, 18 May 2018 12:30:09 -0700 From: Steve Kargl To: Andreas Nilsson Cc: FreeBSD X11 mailing list , Current FreeBSD Subject: Re: [RFC] Deprecation and removal of the drm2 driver Message-ID: <20180518193009.GA88432@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> Reply-To: sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu References: <3a5edc5c-3caa-830b-4bd9-53ff52feb8a7@freebsd.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: 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: Fri, 18 May 2018 19:30:18 -0000 On Fri, May 18, 2018 at 09:14:24PM +0200, Andreas Nilsson wrote: > On Fri, May 18, 2018, 20:00 Niclas Zeising wrote: > > > I propose that we remove the old drm2 driver (sys/dev/drm2) from > > FreeBSD. I suggest the driver is marked as deprecated in 11.x and > > removed from 12.0, as was done for other drivers recently. Some > > background and rationale: > > > > The drm2 driver was the original port of a KMS driver to FreeBSD. It > > was done by Konstantin Belousov to support Intel graphics cards, and > > later extended by Jean-Sébastien Pédron as well as Konstantin to match > > what's in Linux 3.8. This included unstable support from Haswell, but > > nothing newer than that. > > > > For quite some time now we have had the graphics/drm-stable-kmod and > > graphics/drm-next-kmods which provides support for modern AMD and Intel > > graphics cards. These ports, together with the linuxkpi, or lkpi, has > > made it significantly easier to port and update our graphics drivers. > > Further, these new drivers cover the same drivers as the old drm2 driver. > > > > What does the community think? Is there anyone still using the drm2 > > driver on 12-CURRENT? If so, what is preventing you from switching to > > the port? > > > > Thank you > > Regards > > -- > > Niclas Zeising > > FreeBSD x11/graphics team > > _______________________________________________ > > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > > Sounds good ( deprecate resp remove ). It causes more confusion and > problems and it solves nothing. > Check the Makefiles % 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. -- Steve 20170425 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWUpyCsUKR4 20161221 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IbCHE-hONow