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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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