Date: Tue, 1 Sep 2020 16:31:58 +0200 From: Niclas Zeising <zeising@freebsd.org> To: Emmanuel Vadot <manu@bidouilliste.com> Cc: meloun.michal@gmail.com, src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r364737 - head/sys/dev/drm2 Message-ID: <588309ba-8387-f3b7-0381-f80bdfef7e6d@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20200901161904.16e1ea156f622989df3d261a@bidouilliste.com> References: <202008242253.07OMrNO2016612@repo.freebsd.org> <790db2ea-0877-671e-e48f-ec6da42c7437@gmail.com> <20200901151635.91c121acb2bf58e9282aa6ae@bidouilliste.com> <235f7f25-4e38-9154-e990-11aa6f8464d4@freebsd.org> <20200901161904.16e1ea156f622989df3d261a@bidouilliste.com>
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On 2020-09-01 16:19, Emmanuel Vadot wrote: > On Tue, 1 Sep 2020 15:32:18 +0200 > Niclas Zeising <zeising@freebsd.org> wrote: > >> On 2020-09-01 15:16, Emmanuel Vadot wrote: >>> On Tue, 1 Sep 2020 15:13:53 +0200 >>> Michal Meloun <meloun.michal@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> >>>> On 25.08.2020 0:53, Niclas Zeising wrote: >>>>> Author: zeising (doc,ports committer) >>>>> Date: Mon Aug 24 22:53:23 2020 >>>>> New Revision: 364737 >>>>> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/364737 >>>>> >>>>> Log: >>>>> drm2: Update deprecation message >>>>> >>>>> Update the deprecation message in the drm2 (aka legacy drm) drivers to point >>>>> towards the graphics/drm-kmod ports for all architectures, not just amd64. >>>> Only known user of drm2 is arm/tegra124 based boards. How >>>> graphics/drm-kmod can help for these? >>>> Or be more specific - drm2 allows me to hot-plug monitor to tegra based >>>> board an use 2 scaled overlay planes (which is exactly whats I want for >>>> my application). Which alternative can you offer me? >>>> Btw, as you can see, the maintenance cost of drm2 is close to zero and >>>> the dev/drm2 code does not inherit with any of the major architectures. >>>> >>>> Michal >>> >>> I think that the goal was only to mfc this to warn users before 12.2 >>> is branched, maybe a direct commit to 12 would have been better. >>> >> >> No, the change is correct. >> drm-legacy-kmod (the port) is going away, especially on FreeBSD 13, >> since it is preventing updates to the FreeBSD VM subsystem. I sent >> an-email about this to a variety of lists about a week ago. >> I do know that there are a few special users of drm2 in FreeBSD current, >> I do not know how those are affected. Since, on FreeBSD current, most >> architectures can use drm-kmod, I believe it is good to point everyone >> towards that ports, instead of pointing everyone except amd64 users to >> drm-legacy-kmod. >> Regards >> -- >> Niclas Zeising > > drm2 in src is only used for arm, so as Michal wrote in another email > the warning will be seen only for tegra users, the mfc'ed commit will > be seen by intel/amd ones though. > I still have to make a general change that can be MFCd. And pointing arm tegra users to drm-legacy-kmod is equally wrong. Regards -- Niclas Zeising
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