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From: Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com>
To: Daniel Eischen <deischen@freebsd.org>
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Subject: Re: [RFC] Deprecation and removal of the drm2 driver
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On Fri, May 18, 2018 at 04:19:21PM -0400, Daniel Eischen wrote:
> I can easily imagine an embedded x86 kiosk type appliance.

We need to evaluate the tradeoff of "what we can imagine someone will
do with FreeBSD" vs. "what are people using with FreeBSD right now."

mcl