[RFC] Deprecation and removal of the drm2 driver

K. Macy kmacy at freebsd.org
Tue May 22 22:19:45 UTC 2018


> I am concerned about just shoving it out to ports, as that makes
> it rot even faster.
>
> I am still very concerned that our in base i9xx code is like 4
> years old and everyone is told to go to kmod-next from ports
> as well.
>
> No, I do not have a solution, but I have not tried hard to find
> one.  I am sure if we try hard to find one it can be done.

drm-next is a port and it's what most everyone will be using going
forward. You're asking us to make a special case for a small vocal
group of i386 users. If i386 is sufficiently important, its user base
can support it.

Cheers.
-M


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