[RFC] Deprecation and removal of the drm2 driver

[Mateusz Piotrowski]

On Tue, 29 May 2018 21:28:49 +0200
Niclas Zeising <zeising at freebsd.org> wrote:

>On 05/18/18 19:58, Niclas Zeising wrote:
>> [ Cross posted to freebsd-current@ and freebsd-x11 at .  Please respect
>> reply-to and send all replies to freebsd-x11 at .  Thanks! ]
>>
>> [...]
>>
>> 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
>> the port?
>>
>
>
>Wow, this blew up quite a lot bigger than I anticipated.  I'll try to
>summarize the discussion a bit below and then suggest a way forward.
>
> [...]
>
>To move forward, we'll do the following:  Note that this is for current
>only.
>We take the drm and drm2 drivers and make a port for it, maintained by
>the graphics team (x11@).  After a transition period, then the drivers
>are removed from base.  At the same time, pkg-messages are added to
>relevant places to point people to the various available drm drivers.

Let's also remember about our handbooks and those two wiki page:
 * https://wiki.freebsd.org/Graphics
 * https://wiki.freebsd.org/Graphics/FAQ