DRM removal soon

[Yoshihiro Ota]

Hi,

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

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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