[RFC] Deprecation and removal of the drm2 driver

[Warner Losh]

On Fri, May 18, 2018 at 1:30 PM, Steve Kargl <
sgk at troutmask.apl.washington.edu> wrote:

> On Fri, May 18, 2018 at 09:14:24PM +0200, Andreas Nilsson wrote:
> > On Fri, May 18, 2018, 20:00 Niclas Zeising <zeising at freebsd.org> wrote:
> >
> > > I propose that we remove the old drm2 driver (sys/dev/drm2) from
> > > FreeBSD.  I suggest the driver is marked as deprecated in 11.x and
> > > removed from 12.0, as was done for other drivers recently.  Some
> > > background and rationale:
> > >
> > > The drm2 driver was the original port of a KMS driver to FreeBSD.  It
> > > was done by Konstantin Belousov to support Intel graphics cards, and
> > > later extended by Jean-Sébastien Pédron as well as Konstantin to match
> > > what's in Linux 3.8.  This included unstable support from Haswell, but
> > > nothing newer than that.
> > >
> > > For quite some time now we have had the graphics/drm-stable-kmod and
> > > graphics/drm-next-kmods which provides support for modern AMD and Intel
> > > graphics cards.  These ports, together with the linuxkpi, or lkpi, has
> > > made it significantly easier to port and update our graphics drivers.
> > > Further, these new drivers cover the same drivers as the old drm2
> driver.
> > >
> > > 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?
> > >
> > > Thank you
> > > Regards
> > > --
> > > Niclas Zeising
> > > FreeBSD x11/graphics team
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> >
> > Sounds good ( deprecate resp remove ). It causes more confusion and
> > problems and it solves nothing.
> >
>
> Check the Makefiles
>
> % more /usr/ports/graphics/drm-next-kmod/Makefile
>
> ONLY_FOR_ARCHS= amd64
> ONLY_FOR_ARCHS_REASON=  the new KMS components are only supported on amd64
>
> Not to ia32 friendly.
>

So do people use i386 for desktop? And need the latest KMS stuff?

Warner