I remember a time when GNU/Linux was something you installed on an old computer to make it useful again. If the Debian project wants to leave legacy hardware behind, I have no reason to use Debian.
On Mon, May 11, 2020, 3:56 PM John Paul Adrian Glaubitz < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi Christian! > > > Well let's face it AGP is a total headache to maintain and dead for at > least 10+ years. > > > > We have a lot of x86 specific stuff in the architecture independent > graphics memory management > > to get the caching right, abusing the DMA API on multiple occasions, > need to distinct between > > AGP and driver specific page tables etc etc... > > AGP isn't exclusively used on x86 but there are also a lot of PowerPC > desktop machines (Apple > PowerMac, Pegasos etc) that employ AGP graphics. > > > So the idea here is to just go ahead and remove the support from Radeon > and Nouveau and > > then drop the necessary code from TTM. > > For Radeon this means that we just switch over to the driver specific > page tables and > > everything should more or less continue to work. > > > > For Nouveau I'm not 100% sure, but from the code it of hand looks like > we can do it similar to Radeon. > > > > Please comment what you think about this. > > I would be against such a move as AGP graphics is still used by people > running the powerpc > and ppc64 Debian ports on their vintage hardware [1]. > > I have also CC'ed the debian-powerpc mailing list so that other users can > voice their > opinion. > > Thanks, > Adrian > > > [1] https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/2020-04-19/ > > -- > .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz > : :' : Debian Developer - [email protected] > `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - [email protected] > `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913 > >
