svn commit: r364737 - head/sys/dev/drm2

[Niclas Zeising]

On 2020-09-01 15:16, Emmanuel Vadot wrote:
> On Tue, 1 Sep 2020 15:13:53 +0200
> Michal Meloun <meloun.michal at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>>
>>
>> On 25.08.2020 0:53, Niclas Zeising wrote:
>>> Author: zeising (doc,ports committer)
>>> Date: Mon Aug 24 22:53:23 2020
>>> New Revision: 364737
>>> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/364737
>>>
>>> Log:
>>>    drm2: Update deprecation message
>>>    
>>>    Update the deprecation message in the drm2 (aka legacy drm) drivers to point
>>>    towards the graphics/drm-kmod ports for all architectures, not just amd64.
>> Only known user of drm2 is arm/tegra124 based boards. How
>> graphics/drm-kmod can help for these?
>> Or be more specific - drm2 allows me to hot-plug monitor to tegra based
>> board an use 2 scaled overlay planes (which is exactly whats I want for
>>   my application). Which alternative can you offer me?
>> Btw, as you can see, the maintenance cost of drm2 is close to zero and
>> the dev/drm2 code does not inherit with any of the major architectures.
>>
>> Michal
> 
>   I think that the goal was only to mfc this to warn users before 12.2
> is branched, maybe a direct commit to 12 would have been better.
> 

No, the change is correct.
drm-legacy-kmod (the port) is going away, especially on FreeBSD 13, 
since it is preventing updates to the FreeBSD VM subsystem.  I sent 
an-email about this to a variety of lists about a week ago.
I do know that there are a few special users of drm2 in FreeBSD current, 
I do not know how those are affected.  Since, on FreeBSD current, most 
architectures can use drm-kmod, I believe it is good to point everyone 
towards that ports, instead of pointing everyone except amd64 users to 
drm-legacy-kmod.
Regards
-- 
Niclas Zeising