drm-legacy-kmod vs. drm-kmod

[Greg V]

Mar 9, 2020 3:36:31 PM Robert Huff <roberthuff at rcn.com>:

> Hello:
> Am I correct in believing the line separating hardware that uses
> drm-kmod from that using drm-legacy-kmod is (more-or-less) set in
> stone?

No GPUs should require legacy. At least on the Intel side – I've tested drm v5.0 on junk as old as the Eee PC 900 which has a GMA 915 (possibly the earliest Intel GPU).

Legacy might be available on more architectures – we haven't tried building modern drm on 32-bit powerpc for example.