"DRM removal soon" is premature

[Warner Losh]

On Thu, Feb 14, 2019 at 12:02 PM Steve Kargl <
sgk at troutmask.apl.washington.edu> wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 14, 2019 at 11:51:41AM -0700, Warner Losh wrote:
> > On Thu, Feb 14, 2019 at 11:24 AM Steve Kargl <
> > sgk at troutmask.apl.washington.edu> wrote:
> >
> > > On Thu, Feb 14, 2019 at 11:08:18AM -0700, Warner Losh wrote:
> > > > On Thu, Feb 14, 2019 at 11:01 AM Steve Kargl <
> >
> > > In your original post (which I cannot respond
> > > to as I came too late to freebsd-arch), you wrote
> > >
> > >    Since the drm-legacy-kmod or the drm-kmod packages seem to be
> > >    stable and working well for most people, the time has come to
> > >    finish the removal of most of the drm code in FreeBSD.
> > >
> > > I'm pointing out the fallacy of that statement for anyone
> > > running freebsd-current on i386 who uses drm-legacy-kmod.
> > >
> >
> > Hence my qualification of "most people" :)
> >
> > > Niclas proposed a fixed for drm-legacy-kmod here
> > >
> > >
> https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-x11/2019-February/022759.html
> > >
> > > I reported on testing his proposed fix here
> > >
> > >
> https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-x11/2019-February/022760.html
> > >
> > > and here
> > >
> > >
> https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-x11/2019-February/022762.html
> >
> > You might try this fix instead, though I don't think it will matter. I
> > think the breakage you're seeing is a result of a subtle dependency in
> the
> > drm2/ttm code with FreeBSD's vm system. Even had it been connected to the
> > build and fixed at the time, I don't think it would have mattered.
> >
>
> I can't test the patch for several hours, and it will take
> 6 to 7 hours to rebuild world/kernel.  So, I'll have to report
> back tomorrow.
>

You'd only need to rebuild sys/modules/drm2, since that's the only thing
that will change with the patch.

But I can wait. I won't be removing things before tomorrow.

Warner