Date: Mon, 21 May 2018 20:30:26 +0100 From: Johannes Lundberg <johalun0@gmail.com> To: Ian FREISLICH <ian.freislich@capeaugusta.com> Cc: x11-list freebsd <freebsd-x11@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: [RFC] Deprecation and removal of the drm2 driver Message-ID: <CAECmPwt%2BVZQht5CxHWOF2Yhyiuy-X59ovPD29Y95OGxAExKe%2Bw@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <98aaa85f-1433-e50d-3892-3c5fbff61b85@capeaugusta.com> References: <3a5edc5c-3caa-830b-4bd9-53ff52feb8a7@freebsd.org> <98aaa85f-1433-e50d-3892-3c5fbff61b85@capeaugusta.com>
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On Mon, May 21, 2018 at 8:01 PM, Ian FREISLICH < ian.freislich@capeaugusta.com> wrote: > Niclas > > > On 05/18/2018 01:58 PM, Niclas Zeising wrote: > >> [ Cross posted to freebsd-current@ and freebsd-x11@. Please respect >> reply-to and send all replies to freebsd-x11@. Thanks! ] >> >> >> Hi! >> I propose that we remove the old drm2 driver (sys/dev/drm2) from >> FreeBSD. I suggest the driver is marked as deprecated in 11.x and remov= ed >> from 12.0, as was done for other drivers recently. Some background and >> rationale: >> >> The drm2 driver was the original port of a KMS driver to FreeBSD. It was >> done by Konstantin Belousov to support Intel graphics cards, and later >> extended by Jean-S=C3=A9bastien P=C3=A9dron as well as Konstantin to mat= ch what's in >> Linux 3.8. This included unstable support from Haswell, but nothing new= er >> than that. >> >> For quite some time now we have had the graphics/drm-stable-kmod and >> graphics/drm-next-kmods which provides support for modern AMD and Intel >> graphics cards. These ports, together with the linuxkpi, or lkpi, has m= ade >> it significantly easier to port and update our graphics drivers. Further= , >> these new drivers cover the same drivers as the old drm2 driver. >> >> What does the community think? Is there anyone still using the drm2 >> driver on 12-CURRENT? If so, what is preventing you from switching to t= he >> port? >> > > I'm running -CURRENT on all my systems. I have a "3rd Gen" HD Graphics > 4000 that I'm running drm-next on but I'm about to revert to drm2 because > of instabilities. Xorg spontaneously crashes, and doesn't on drm2. I als= o > have a Haswell system running drm2 which I have not tried drm-next becaus= e > SWMBO is particularly intolerant of stuff not working. > If drm-next-kmod is causing issues, please try drm-stable-kmod. (we should really rename drm-next to drm-unstable/beta..) > > I also ran drm-next successfully on a Sunrise Point-LP system with "Intel > UHD Graphics 620" because drm2 didn't support the graphics chip before > switching to linux to get the trackpad and sound working. > > I guess the situation is that your mileage may vary depending on your > system. I'm OK with installing drm2 from ports, but at this point I'm no= t > really OK with loosing drm2 at this stage because of the instability in > drm-next on my one system. > > Ian > > -- > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-x11@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-x11 > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-x11-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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