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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
made it significantly easier to port and update our graphics drivers.
Further, these new drivers cover the same drivers as the old drm2 driver.
What does the community think? Is there anyone still using the drm2
driver on 12-CURRENT? If so, what is preventing you from switching to
the port?
Thank you
Regards
--
Niclas Zeising
FreeBSD x11/graphics team
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