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Date:      Mon, 21 May 2018 13:16:12 -0700
From:      "K. Macy" <kmacy@freebsd.org>
To:        sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu
Cc:        Rozhuk Ivan <rozhuk.im@gmail.com>, Oliver Pinter <oliver.pinter@hardenedbsd.org>,  Niclas Zeising <zeising+freebsd@daemonic.se>, Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>,  FreeBSD X11 mailing list <freebsd-x11@freebsd.org>, Current FreeBSD <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: [RFC] Deprecation and removal of the drm2 driver
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On Mon, May 21, 2018 at 10:07 AM, Steve Kargl
<sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> wrote:
> On Mon, May 21, 2018 at 02:40:50AM +0300, Rozhuk Ivan wrote:
>> On Sun, 20 May 2018 21:10:28 +0200
>> Oliver Pinter <oliver.pinter@hardenedbsd.org> wrote:
>>
>> > > One of the reasons for the deprecation and removal of the drm2 bits
>> > > is that they prevent us from automatically loading the
>> > > drm-next/stable-kmod kernel modules, since the two collide.
>> > > Regards
>> >
>> >
>> > Then it wold be better to resolve this problem, rather then removing a
>> > working solution. What's about module versioning what in other cases
>> > works?
>> >
>>
>> May be just move old drm2 to ports?
>
> Why?  "If it isn't broken, why fix it?"
>
> The conflict affects x86_64-*-freebsd aka amd64.  The
> conflict does not affect any other architecture.  The
> Makefile infrastructure can use MACHINE_ARCH to exclude
> drm2 from build of amd64.
>
<strawman ... clipped>
Having it as a port puts the burden squarely on those using it and not
on the majority who are running hardware from this decade.

-M



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