Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2020 10:28:24 -0700 From: Chris <bsd-lists@bsdforge.com> To: x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: deprecation of drm-legacy-kmod Message-ID: <caefaea84e701f966bc3b5dd9a0d7bef@bsdforge.com> In-Reply-To: <e770c456-c6fa-924c-0f1e-1d69ce80846f@freebsd.org> References: <e770c456-c6fa-924c-0f1e-1d69ce80846f@freebsd.org>
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On 2020-08-24 15:21, Niclas Zeising wrote: > [ cross posted across several mailing lists, please respect reply-to ] > > Hi! > > It is time to deprecate drm-legacy-kmod, since it is taking too much time to > maintain and are holding off changes in other areas. > > drm-legacy-kmod was created to aid in the transition to the LinuxKPI based > graphics drivers, at a time when the new drivers only supported amd64. > Since > then, the new drivers have been updated to support more architectures and > more > GPUs, and the burden of maintaining drm-legacy-kmod has increased. It > became > apparent with the update of xorg-server to 1.20 that drm-legacy-kmod is too > old to > work with certain aspects of the graphics stack, and it is also holding back > changes in areas of the FreeBSD base system such as VM scaling and > optimization. > The VM locking protocol needs to be changed, and to port those changes to > these > drivers would require extensive reworking of its use of the FreeBSD VM > subsystem. > This means it is time for it to go. > > The driver will remain for a transition period. For FreeBSD 13-CURRENT, > this will > be fairly short, as there are changes to FreeBSD base that breaks the > drivers. > For FreeBSD 12, the driver will remain a bit longer, to ease in transition. > On > FreeBSD 12, there is also the option of using the graphics drivers in base, > although those are supported on a best-effort basis only. If this were pulled today. What are the ramifications? IOW what (A)GPUs would no longer be available for use on FreeBSD? Does one need to join a Linux Graphics list to find out what's currently supported? If so. What version of the Linux kernel? Thanks. --Chris > > Regards
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