On 25 August 2016 at 12:14, Daniel Vetter <daniel at ffwll.ch> wrote: > On Thu, Aug 04, 2016 at 09:15:07AM +0100, Chris Wilson wrote: >> On Thu, Aug 04, 2016 at 10:06:57AM +0200, David Herrmann wrote: >> > The legacy DRI1 drivers expose highly broken interfaces to user-space. No >> > modern system should enable them, or you will effectively allow user-space >> > to circumvent most of your kernel security measures. The DRI1 kernel APIs >> > are simply broken. >> > >> > User-space can always use vesafb/efifb/simplefb and friends to get working >> > graphics. >> > >> > Lets hide the old drivers behind CONFIG_BROKEN. In case they turn out to >> > be still used (really?), we can easily revert this and figure out a way to >> > move them out of sight (e.g., moving all DRI1 drivers to >> > drivers/gpu/dri1/). >> > >> > Signed-off-by: David Herrmann <dh.herrmann at gmail.com> >> >> Acked-by: Chris Wilson <chris at chris-wilson.co.uk> >> >> I'd rather have a couple of distro devs check if they are still using >> any of these, and would value their a-b/r-b. > > Mesa stopped shipping dri1 drivers years ago, and neither Fedora and > Debian here have that old version packaged (it should keep working since > the dri loader is an ABI). I don't think anyone needs this, and if I'm > wrong we'll hear about it ;-) > Archlinux (which seems to be picking more users) is still shipping dri1 drivers - both mesa and X. No idea for many actually use those and/or for how much longer the packages will be around.
IIRC the maintainer, Connor, used to hack on the xf86-video-r128 with plans(?) on getting things KMS aware. Not sure if that was by extending the existing radeon kernel, ddx, mesa driver(s) or otherwise. Connor, can you shed some light ? -Emil
