Hi, Sorry, didn't notice the email until today. To answer your question why it is not enabled in GENERIC by default, I am not sure (Taylor(?)), it was commented since the day one both on i386 and amd64.
However, I have some doubts if it is very relevant driver to enable it. From the context perspective, viadrmums is also a legacy driver, Linux have already removed it in the latest kernel source code, and new https://cgit.freedesktop.org/openchrome/drm-openchrome/ was developed, but haven't made it to official kernel yet (and hard to tell when and if it will happen at all)). VIA integrated graphics drivers development was a always a bit of a sad story: lack of interest, manpower/skills, lack of VIA participation, the hardware is pretty obscure and under-performing, and likely more suitable for non graphics related tasks. Myself I used it mainly for NAS and testing platform, thus I need only basic graphics support. Nevertheless, if it doesn't affect the development much and it does seem to be work in the machines I own, I can enable it. That also reminds me that I wanted to finish unichromefb driver in our code base, which is unfinished and limited to VX900 support now if I am not mistaken... Maybe it is time to spend some effort on that... Regards, Andrius V On Thu, Aug 10, 2023 at 12:42 AM matthew green <m...@eterna.com.au> wrote: > > > Log Message: > > viadrmums(4): build legacy VIA DRM UMS driver module for amd64. > > > > This driver is not built-in by default, thus loadable module can help > > (un)lucky > > if it works, why isn't it in GENERIC as well as a module? > > thanks. > > > .mrg.
