Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2024 07:40:09 +0200 From: Andre Albsmeier <Andre.Albsmeier@siemens.com> To: Ed Maste <emaste@freebsd.org> Cc: Mark Johnston <markj@freebsd.org>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Andre.Albsmeier@siemens.com Subject: Re: removing the agp(4) driver Message-ID: <ZtqVuaGedxmtfQDE@bali.c4ef04bb578971607fc6a73f3188a722> In-Reply-To: <CAPyFy2DuvA2cPZxcfPMoo2XpJ9cErDa5H1uHYVzw%2Bvoid0P5jQ@mail.gmail.com> References: <Ztm1i2B7zZMacX0-@nuc> <CAPyFy2DuvA2cPZxcfPMoo2XpJ9cErDa5H1uHYVzw%2Bvoid0P5jQ@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thu, 05-Sep-2024 at 12:34:20 -0400, Ed Maste wrote: > On Thu, 5 Sept 2024 at 09:43, Mark Johnston <markj@freebsd.org> wrote: > > > > I'd like to propose removing the agp(4) driver in FreeBSD 15.0. > > It looks like there are some recent NYC*BUG dmesgd submissions showing > currently supported versions of FreeBSD running on agp hardware. Most > are i386 but there's at least one amd64 case. > > Despite that I think it makes sense to remove agp for FreeBSD 15. The > hardware was already being phased out of mainstream systems two > decades ago and is now obsolete. I don't imagine the development > effort to move the driver out from Giant is worth the cost and folks > with old hardware who need agp graphics can continue to use FreeBSD > 14.x. It's supported through 2028. Hmm, probably I am missing something but I tried a kernel without agp and i915kms.ko complained with: KLD i915kms.ko: depends on agp - not available or version mismatch I recompiled drm-61-kmod but this didn't change anything. This is on 14.1-STABLE / amd64 (25 machines, some only 3-4 years old).
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