From owner-freebsd-current@freebsd.org Tue May 22 23:26:11 2018 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@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 B5416EE570E for ; Tue, 22 May 2018 23:26:11 +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 3F0206D9CE; Tue, 22 May 2018 23:26:11 +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 w4MNQ4mq097758 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=NO); Tue, 22 May 2018 16:26:04 -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 w4MNQ4SZ097757; Tue, 22 May 2018 16:26:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sgk) Date: Tue, 22 May 2018 16:26:03 -0700 From: Steve Kargl To: "K. Macy" Cc: "A. Wilcox" , FreeBSD Current Subject: Re: [RFC] Deprecation and removal of the drm2 driver Message-ID: <20180522232603.GA97708@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> Reply-To: sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu References: <20180521024050.0857a787@gmail.com> <20180521170728.GA14025@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <20180522011543.3f621882@gmail.com> <20180521224927.GA9925@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <1db36614-5381-dac6-f754-d828cee2a743@Wilcox-Tech.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.9.2 (2017-12-15) X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.26 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 22 May 2018 23:26:11 -0000 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