Re: git: b02f141ef906 - main - graphics/mesa-gallium-{va,vdpau}: Drop i386 support

From: Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe_at_freebsd.org>
Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2025 04:41:14 UTC
On Thu, Jan 30, 2025 at 12:56:47PM +0100, Emmanuel Vadot wrote:
> On Thu, 30 Jan 2025 12:54:12 +0100 Jan Beich wrote:
> > Emmanuel Vadot writes:
> > > commit b02f141ef906d5819a625a17ae1208a530e7706d
> > > 
> > >   graphics/mesa-gallium-{va,vdpau}: Drop i386 support
> > > 
> > >   We've never supported amdgpu for i386 in drm-*-kmod so no need
> > >   for video decoding support.
> > 
> > Doesn't r600_drv_video.so (from this port) use radeonkms.ko (from
> > drm-kmod)?
> 
> Mhm, could be yes. Will see if anyone complains but I doubt that we
> have i386 users with radeonkms

I use it with ATI Radeon HD 4350 (RV710) but I can patch locally so
I guess I won't complain.  Still, for correctness' sake we probably
should only drop i386 tag from amdgpu'ish bits and leave radeonkms
(pre-GCN) ones as 32/64-bit.

> and if we do they should just move away from i386 for desktop.

The funny thing is that my i386 desktop works better than amd64 ones,
so go figure. :-)

./danfe