Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2019 00:31:26 -0500 From: Yoshihiro Ota <ota@j.email.ne.jp> To: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> Cc: FreeBSD X11 mailing list <freebsd-x11@freebsd.org>, "freebsd-arch@freebsd.org" <arch@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: DRM removal soon Message-ID: <20190223003126.4aec5a01b77ec9bf9ea0992a@j.email.ne.jp> In-Reply-To: <CANCZdfptG6hwdDc=RFMUA%2BfA7eMijPycY24dcqPLi7aP-whR-A@mail.gmail.com> References: <CANCZdfptG6hwdDc=RFMUA%2BfA7eMijPycY24dcqPLi7aP-whR-A@mail.gmail.com>
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Hi, How does this impact VMWare users? I couldn't find much of documents. I run few FreeBSD versions on MacBook VMWare. Do we have a different driver for VMWare or go by MacBook's? I looked at dmesg of another laptop and that reports "Radeon". However, I don't find any "drm" in FreeBSD VMWare dmesg at all. I'm not sure which driver FreeBSD has been picking up. Thanks, Hiro On Thu, 14 Feb 2019 09:59:52 -0700 Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> wrote: > The parts of drm that we're removing are up for review: > https://reviews.freebsd.org/D19196 > > Since the drm-legacy-kmod or the drm-kmod packages seem to be stable and > working well for most people, the time has come to finish the removal of > most of the drm code in FreeBSD. > > The intel and radeon drivers will be removed. The ability to build things > as a module will be removed. Some bits will remain for the TEGRA arm board, > since the transition from the drm code base isn't as straight forward as it > was for the intel and amd drivers (the effort to emulate the kernel > environment on arm is significantly higher than x86 because in addition to > programming to the GPU, clocks, power regulators, etc need to be programmed > as well. The interfaces here are not standardized and different greatly > between FreeBSD and Linux). > > Absent any significant last minute issue, it is my intention to commit this > change on Feb 21st, which is 20 days later than had been previously > announced. > > Warner > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-arch@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-arch > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-arch-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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