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From: Jan Beich <jbeich@FreeBSD.org>
To: Slawa Olhovchenkov <slw@zxy.spb.ru>
Cc: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org, freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] Deprecation and removal of the drm2 driver
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Date: Sat, 19 May 2018 20:38:20 +0200
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Slawa Olhovchenkov <slw@zxy.spb.ru> writes:

> On Fri, May 18, 2018 at 07:58:10PM +0200, Niclas Zeising wrote:
>
>> [ Cross posted to freebsd-current@ and freebsd-x11@.  Please respect=20
>> reply-to and send all replies to freebsd-x11@.  Thanks! ]
>>=20
>>=20
>> Hi!
>> I propose that we remove the old drm2 driver (sys/dev/drm2) from=20
>> FreeBSD.  I suggest the driver is marked as deprecated in 11.x and=20
>> removed from 12.0, as was done for other drivers recently.  Some=20
>> background and rationale:
>>=20
>> The drm2 driver was the original port of a KMS driver to FreeBSD.  It=20
>> was done by Konstantin Belousov to support Intel graphics cards, and=20
>> later extended by Jean-S=C3=A9bastien P=C3=A9dron as well as Konstantin =
to match=20
>> what's in Linux 3.8.  This included unstable support from Haswell, but=20
>> nothing newer than that.
>>=20
>> For quite some time now we have had the graphics/drm-stable-kmod and=20
>> graphics/drm-next-kmods which provides support for modern AMD and Intel=
=20
>> graphics cards.  These ports, together with the linuxkpi, or lkpi, has=20
>
> 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)

NVIDIA dropped 32bit driver since 396.* series. None of x11/nvidia-driver*
currently depend on either drm.ko or drm2.ko. However, Linux driver
appears to depend on DRM/KMS since 364.12.