Slawa Olhovchenkov <s...@zxy.spb.ru> writes: > On Fri, May 18, 2018 at 07:58:10PM +0200, Niclas Zeising wrote: > >> [ Cross posted to freebsd-current@ and freebsd-x11@. Please respect >> reply-to and send all replies to freebsd-x11@. Thanks! ] >> >> >> Hi! >> I propose that we remove the old drm2 driver (sys/dev/drm2) from >> FreeBSD. I suggest the driver is marked as deprecated in 11.x and >> removed from 12.0, as was done for other drivers recently. Some >> background and rationale: >> >> The drm2 driver was the original port of a KMS driver to FreeBSD. It >> was done by Konstantin Belousov to support Intel graphics cards, and >> later extended by Jean-Sébastien Pédron as well as Konstantin to match >> what's in Linux 3.8. This included unstable support from Haswell, but >> nothing newer than that. >> >> For quite some time now we have had the graphics/drm-stable-kmod and >> graphics/drm-next-kmods which provides support for modern AMD and Intel >> graphics cards. These ports, together with the linuxkpi, or lkpi, has > > What about old graphics card? I am have notebook w/ i945 chipset, is > this supported by graphics/drm-*? > > And what about nvidia? > (sorry, I am not developer this drivers, I am just user, I am don't > know what need for nvidia work etc)
NVIDIA dropped 32bit driver since 396.* series. None of x11/nvidia-driver* currently depend on either drm.ko or drm2.ko. However, Linux driver appears to depend on DRM/KMS since 364.12. _______________________________________________ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
