On Sat, 12 Aug 2023 at 16:16, Andrius V <vezh...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 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.
Some of us are all about the legacy hardware :) Seriously, one of the areas in which NetBSD's reputation is relatively better is in older x86 hardware, so if enabling it is likely to give a better experience for some set of hardware while being very unlikely to make things worse, I'd support enabling it David
