Re: removing the agp(4) driver

On Thu, 05-Sep-2024 at 12:34:20 -0400, Ed Maste wrote:
> On Thu, 5 Sept 2024 at 09:43, Mark Johnston <markj@freebsd.org> wrote:
> >
> > I'd like to propose removing the agp(4) driver in FreeBSD 15.0.
> 
> It looks like there are some recent NYC*BUG dmesgd submissions showing
> currently supported versions of FreeBSD running on agp hardware. Most
> are i386 but there's at least one amd64 case.
> 
> Despite that I think it makes sense to remove agp for FreeBSD 15. The
> hardware was already being phased out of mainstream systems two
> decades ago and is now obsolete. I don't imagine the development
> effort to move the driver out from Giant is worth the cost and folks
> with old hardware who need agp graphics can continue to use FreeBSD
> 14.x. It's supported through 2028.

Hmm, probably I am missing something but I tried a kernel without agp and
i915kms.ko complained with:

KLD i915kms.ko: depends on agp - not available or version mismatch

I recompiled drm-61-kmod but this didn't change anything. This is on
14.1-STABLE / amd64 (25 machines, some only 3-4 years old).