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

On Fri, 31 Jan 2025 04:41:14 +0000
Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@freebsd.org> wrote:

> 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.

 I will turn the gallium drivers into options and make the default
based on the arch then.
 BTW your GPU will soon turn 18, might be the time to let it go fly
away of the parents' house.

> > 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. :-)

 How so ? I can't possibly see a world where that can be true.

> ./danfe


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Emmanuel Vadot <manu@bidouilliste.com> <manu@freebsd.org>