[RFC] Deprecation and removal of the drm2 driver

Steve Kargl sgk at troutmask.apl.washington.edu
Fri May 18 22:25:52 UTC 2018


On Fri, May 18, 2018 at 02:03:32PM -0600, Warner Losh wrote:
> On Fri, May 18, 2018 at 1:30 PM, Steve Kargl <
> sgk at troutmask.apl.washington.edu> wrote:
> 
> > 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?
> 

I use drm2 on my old Dell Latitude D530 with Intel graphics.
Unfortunately, she ate her old SATA-1 disk on Monday and I've
only just gotten a SSD to replace.  So, I need to recreate
my laptop's environment.

-- 
Steve


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