DRM removal soon

[Johannes Lundberg]

On Sat, Feb 23, 2019 at 12:05 Yoshihiro Ota <ota at j.email.ne.jp> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> How does this impact VMWare users?
> I couldn't find much of documents.


Hi

Not at all. FreeBSD does not have kernel side drm drivers for running as
guest in virtual machines (yet).


>
> I run few FreeBSD versions on MacBook VMWare.
>
> Do we have a different driver for VMWare or go by MacBook's?
>
> I looked at dmesg of another laptop and that reports "Radeon".
> However, I don't find any "drm" in FreeBSD VMWare dmesg at all.
> I'm not sure which driver FreeBSD has been picking up.
>
> Thanks,
> Hiro
>
> On Thu, 14 Feb 2019 09:59:52 -0700
> Warner Losh <imp at bsdimp.com> wrote:
>
> > The parts of drm that we're removing are up for review:
> > https://reviews.freebsd.org/D19196
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > The intel and radeon drivers will be removed. The ability to build things
> > as a module will be removed. Some bits will remain for the TEGRA arm
> board,
> > since the transition from the drm code base isn't as straight forward as
> it
> > was for the intel and amd drivers (the effort to emulate the kernel
> > environment on arm is significantly higher than x86 because in addition
> to
> > programming to the GPU, clocks, power regulators, etc need to be
> programmed
> > as well. The interfaces here are not standardized and different greatly
> > between FreeBSD and Linux).
> >
> > Absent any significant last minute issue, it is my intention to commit
> this
> > change on Feb 21st, which is 20 days later than had been previously
> > announced.
> >
> > Warner
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