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Date:      Tue, 22 May 2018 15:47:15 -0700 (PDT)
From:      "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd-rwg@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net>
To:        "K. Macy" <kmacy@freebsd.org>
Cc:        "A. Wilcox" <AWilcox@wilcox-tech.com>, FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: [RFC] Deprecation and removal of the drm2 driver
Message-ID:  <201805222247.w4MMlFxm032110@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net>
In-Reply-To: <CAHM0Q_M02heuWPBGv23C7OgiVYsMmMkqH6DjzyoUp1C0E-0-SQ@mail.gmail.com>

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> > I am concerned about just shoving it out to ports, as that makes
> > it rot even faster.
> >
> > I am still very concerned that our in base i9xx code is like 4
> > years old and everyone is told to go to kmod-next from ports
> > as well.
> >
> > No, I do not have a solution, but I have not tried hard to find
> > one.  I am sure if we try hard to find one it can be done.
> 
> drm-next is a port and it's what most everyone will be using going
> forward. You're asking us to make a special case for a small vocal
> group of i386 users. If i386 is sufficiently important, its user base
> can support it.

Are you saying there is only one way forward?


-- 
Rod Grimes                                                 rgrimes@freebsd.org



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