Date: Sat, 19 May 2018 20:38:20 +0200 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 Message-ID: <a7sv-ebj7-wny@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20180519122817.GA1954@zxy.spb.ru> (Slawa Olhovchenkov's message of "Sat, 19 May 2018 15:28:17 %2B0300") References: <3a5edc5c-3caa-830b-4bd9-53ff52feb8a7@freebsd.org> <20180519122817.GA1954@zxy.spb.ru>
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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.
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