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Date:      Tue, 22 May 2018 15:19:44 -0700
From:      "K. Macy" <kmacy@freebsd.org>
To:        "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd-rwg@pdx.rh.cn85.dnsmgr.net>
Cc:        "A. Wilcox" <AWilcox@wilcox-tech.com>, FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: [RFC] Deprecation and removal of the drm2 driver
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> I am concerned about just shoving it out to ports, as that makes
> it rot even faster.
>
> I am still very concerned that our in base i9xx code is like 4
> years old and everyone is told to go to kmod-next from ports
> as well.
>
> No, I do not have a solution, but I have not tried hard to find
> one.  I am sure if we try hard to find one it can be done.

drm-next is a port and it's what most everyone will be using going
forward. You're asking us to make a special case for a small vocal
group of i386 users. If i386 is sufficiently important, its user base
can support it.

Cheers.
-M



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