Date: Sat, 19 May 2018 15:28:17 +0300 From: Slawa Olhovchenkov <slw@zxy.spb.ru> To: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [RFC] Deprecation and removal of the drm2 driver Message-ID: <20180519122817.GA1954@zxy.spb.ru> In-Reply-To: <3a5edc5c-3caa-830b-4bd9-53ff52feb8a7@freebsd.org> References: <3a5edc5c-3caa-830b-4bd9-53ff52feb8a7@freebsd.org>
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On Fri, May 18, 2018 at 07:58:10PM +0200, Niclas Zeising wrote: > [ Cross posted to freebsd-current@ and freebsd-x11@. Please respect > reply-to and send all replies to freebsd-x11@. Thanks! ] > > > Hi! > 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 What about old graphics card? I am have notebook w/ i945 chipset, is this supported by graphics/drm-*? And what about nvidia? (sorry, I am not developer this drivers, I am just user, I am don't know what need for nvidia work etc) > 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?
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