Date: Sun, 3 Sep 2017 11:02:07 +0100 From: David Chisnall <theraven@FreeBSD.org> To: Cy Schubert <Cy.Schubert@komquats.com> Cc: Johannes M Dieterich <jmd@freebsd.org>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [RFC] future of drm1 in base Message-ID: <288500A4-AF22-465D-AAE7-794BEED3A5E5@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <201709030531.v835VNEt023765@slippy.cwsent.com> References: <201709030531.v835VNEt023765@slippy.cwsent.com>
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On 3 Sep 2017, at 06:31, Cy Schubert <Cy.Schubert@komquats.com> wrote: >=20 > Thanks for the heads up Johannes. I currently have three machines that = each=20 > run ATI r128, mach64 and the last one an mga card. I normally use my = i945=20 > and i915 laptops (mostly the former) but on occasion I may fire up X = on one=20 > of the other three. Having a drm-legacy port in the tree would benefit = to=20 > me. It=E2=80=99s been quite a while since I used any of these (though much = of the list is very familiar), but the last machine I ran with a mach64 = card was faster with the vesa driver than with the =E2=80=98accelerated=E2= =80=99 driver (as I recall, it was a 500MHz Pentium III). I suspect the = real question is not whether people have machines that use these cards, = but whether they do anything with them where they=E2=80=99d notice the = lack of acceleration. David
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