[RFC] Deprecation and removal of the drm2 driver

Mateusz Piotrowski 0mp at FreeBSD.org
Wed May 30 00:51:06 UTC 2018


On Tue, 29 May 2018 17:39:57 -0700 (PDT)
"Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd-rwg at pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net> wrote:

>> Let's also remember about our handbooks and those two wiki page:
>>  * https://wiki.freebsd.org/Graphics
>>  * https://wiki.freebsd.org/Graphics/FAQ
>This one has a bit rot on this claim:
>	"The i915kms kernel-side driver is already built into the
>	 generic FreeBSD kernel. No need to install anything. '
>
>That is slightly miss leading, it is not "built into the generic",
>it is avaliable as a module, at least on 11 and 12, not sure on
>10 as I dont have 10 running any place anymore.

Good catch! Thanks.


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