On Fri, Aug 24, 2018 at 4:20 PM Niclas Zeising <zeis...@freebsd.org> wrote:
> On 08/24/18 17:20, Warner Losh wrote: > > This would allow the graphics port to have a rc script that sets > > this up so when X11 goes to automatically load the module, the right one > > gets loaded. > > > > I just want to point out that X11 doesn't load the graphics kernel > driver by default when using the drm-*-kmod ports, and I'm not sure the > hack to have the intel ddx (xf86-video-intel) load the drm2 driver is > still around. > > It doesn't really matter though, since upstream is moving away from > having X load the driver, and I'd like us to follow suit by using > devmatch (this is one of the reasons we wanted to get rid of the base > drivers, as I've stated before). X can't always know which driver to > load (when using modesetting for instance), and in my opinion, it should > be the kernel/loader that decides which drivers to load. Excellent. That reduces the compatibility matrix I need to consider. I have some ideas, and will hack on them to see if a clever bit of slide of hand will solve the main problem of loading the wrong driver in a dependency chain. Warner _______________________________________________ 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"
