Date: Tue, 22 May 2018 16:26:03 -0700 From: Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> 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: <20180522232603.GA97708@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <CAHM0Q_P0OAY3OHgMxZ0Ky6u2SKZOM8Q7uQLF5CuOjFRXTNRCFA@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAPQ4ffvd1da%2BiMXtPfz%2BxETqPZwgmNoBa5yZMSF26qPMkSD2qQ@mail.gmail.com> <20180521024050.0857a787@gmail.com> <20180521170728.GA14025@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <20180522011543.3f621882@gmail.com> <CAHM0Q_ND3_4EB7mXoPK94wQSXsrgpvLO8D2kRDMnA=pZ4wLzUA@mail.gmail.com> <20180521224927.GA9925@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <CAECmPwsfSSYtcHypWej4vTiDJy_wHM0pm8YchZniAe17ojXGgA@mail.gmail.com> <CAPS9%2BSt5dZaAwC%2Bw1EyXW2hr4D4dgpZUzVjQ2=aKdMS9ucZaRg@mail.gmail.com> <1db36614-5381-dac6-f754-d828cee2a743@Wilcox-Tech.com> <CAHM0Q_P0OAY3OHgMxZ0Ky6u2SKZOM8Q7uQLF5CuOjFRXTNRCFA@mail.gmail.com>
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On Tue, May 22, 2018 at 02:56:55PM -0700, K. Macy wrote: > > > > > > it makes me giggle that people still think non-amd64 is "legacy". > > > > i386 is alive and well - new chips are being fabbed based on the 586 > > design with pci-e slots; not to mention things like the Talos and > > AmigaOne for PowerPC. > > > DRM2 doesn't support anything later than mid-Haswell. The chips in > question all pre-date 2007. Users of low-volume hardware on chips from > that period are welcome to continue to sustain themselves on the drm2 > port just as the other 95+% of the user base will use what is now > referred to as drm-next. Even by powerpc maintainers' admission DRM2 > also only barely works there. I've promised Justin that I'll make > drm-next work on Talos once POWER9 support is solid enough. % dmesg | CPU CPU: AMD FX(tm)-8350 Eight-Core Processor (4018.34-MHz K8-class CPU) % kldstat troutmask:sgk[205] kldstat Id Refs Address Size Name 9 1 0xffffffff8141e000 db148 radeonkms.ko 10 1 0xffffffff814fa000 3f7d0 drm2.ko 11 2 0xffffffff8153a000 acf8 agp.ko 12 1 0xffffffff81545000 12f9 radeonkmsfw_CAICOS_pfp.ko 13 1 0xffffffff81547000 16f7 radeonkmsfw_CAICOS_me.ko 14 1 0xffffffff81549000 d73 radeonkmsfw_BTC_rlc.ko 15 1 0xffffffff8154a000 5f97 radeonkmsfw_CAICOS_mc.ko Mid-Haswell? -- Steve
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