On Sun, 16 Mar 2025 21:20:19 +0300
Artem Bunichev <[email protected]> wrote:

> > Just a FYI:
> > It could be because even MINIMAL kernel configuration has
> > 
> >  device             agp             # support several AGP chipsets
> > 
> > line.
> 
> Yes, I noticed that both GENERIC and MINIMAL kernels do have the agp(4) driver
> included.  But as I can see, it doesn't make sense to compile this driver if
> your machine doesn't need it (I mean, no actual hardware for the driver;
> `dmesg |grep agp' outputs nothing on my ThinkPad X220).  As I understand from
> Emmanuel Vadot's message, the problem can be solved with conditional
> compilation, but I just want to sort of bump it, because I found that it
> hasn't been solved yet.  I think that it's better to do this before the driver
> will actually be removed.
> 
> Artem.

100% agree with you.
But as graphics/drm-*-kmod are ported from Linux, I suspect if Linux
still support agp even on amd64 (would be nonsense, though) and ask agp
driver whether there's any GPU or not, agp driver would be needed just
to reply "there's none!".

Not read the codes, so I would be wrong. But just a possible reason to
keep it.

-- 
Tomoaki AOKI    <[email protected]>

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