Date: Tue, 1 Sep 2020 16:37:01 +0200 From: Emmanuel Vadot <manu@bidouilliste.com> To: Niclas Zeising <zeising@freebsd.org> 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: <20200901163701.112d951b9df563e31cf682b3@bidouilliste.com> In-Reply-To: <588309ba-8387-f3b7-0381-f80bdfef7e6d@freebsd.org> 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> <588309ba-8387-f3b7-0381-f80bdfef7e6d@freebsd.org>
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On Tue, 1 Sep 2020 16:31:58 +0200 Niclas Zeising <zeising@freebsd.org> wrote: > 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. I think that for this case a direct commit to 12 would have been ok. > And pointing arm tegra users to drm-legacy-kmod is equally wrong. True, pointing them to any port is wrong anyway, none of them will work, it would be better to remove the warning now. > Regards > -- > Niclas Zeising -- Emmanuel Vadot <manu@bidouilliste.com>
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