Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2021 09:21:45 +0000 From: Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Xorg crashes several times a day Message-ID: <20210126092145.58c1f5bbdccfdd6e02748b5a@sohara.org> In-Reply-To: <YA/XyCkC3DYuftYq@admin.sibptus.ru> References: <YAz90Yiz1YC/wynK@admin.sibptus.ru> <YA0GKKpp%2BGwSlcgt@admin.sibptus.ru> <YA/XyCkC3DYuftYq@admin.sibptus.ru>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Tue, 26 Jan 2021 15:50:16 +0700 Victor Sudakov <vas@sibptus.ru> wrote: > I still fail to understand why /boot/kernel/i915kms.ko is there at all > as part of the GENERIC kernel if it does not work. As best as I can understand it the module (and the whole in-tree drm stack) does work for older hardware but is increasingly troublesome on newer hardware and has been slated for removal and replacement by the port following a deprecation policy which means it hasn't quite gone yet. In the old days when there was talk of Vikings taking axes to the tree it would probably have been removed some time ago and there would have been period of complaint about the sudden need to install a port. No policy is perfect. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org>
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20210126092145.58c1f5bbdccfdd6e02748b5a>