In message <20170902220257.66672...@manray.ogolem.org>, Johannes M Dieterich wr ites: > Dear current/x11, > > please CC me on responses. > > I am writing you on behalf of the FreeBSDDesktop team concerning the > future of drm1 in base. > > drm1 in base supports the following GPUs: > * 3dfx Banshee/Voodoo3+ (tdfx) > * ATI Rage 128 (r128) > * ATI Rage Pro (mach64) > * Matrox G200/G400 (mga) > * Savage3D/MX/IX, Savage4, SuperSavage, Twister, ProSavage[DDR] (savage) > * SIS 300/630/540 and XGI V3XE/V5/V8 (sis) > * VIA Unichrome / Pro (via) > > Since their original introduction up to 2010 these drivers have mostly > been maintained as part of larger cleanups. The newest hardware drm1 > supports dates from 2004, if I am not mistaken, and most of the > hardware is AGP-based. > > With the introduction of graphics/drm-next-kmod which brings its own > drm.ko following the Linux notation, we are facing collisions between > these old drivers' drm.ko and the newer one. > > We would like to hear if anybody still runs CURRENT on machines housing > the above GPUs and relies on drm1. > > If there are still a significant number of people running CURRENT on > this hardware in production, we would be willing to make a > graphics/drm-legacy-kmod port.
Thanks for the heads up Johannes. I currently have three machines that each run ATI r128, mach64 and the last one an mga card. I normally use my i945 and i915 laptops (mostly the former) but on occasion I may fire up X on one of the other three. Having a drm-legacy port in the tree would benefit to me. -- Cheers, Cy Schubert <cy.schub...@cschubert.com> FreeBSD UNIX: <c...@freebsd.org> Web: http://www.FreeBSD.org The need of the many outweighs the greed of the few. _______________________________________________ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
