[RFC] Deprecation and removal of the drm2 driver

[K. Macy]

Why are you running i386 on that?

On Tue, May 22, 2018 at 4:26 PM, Steve Kargl
<sgk at troutmask.apl.washington.edu> wrote:
> On Tue, May 22, 2018 at 02:56:55PM -0700, K. Macy wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> > it makes me giggle that people still think non-amd64 is "legacy".
>> >
>> > i386 is alive and well - new chips are being fabbed based on the 586
>> > design with pci-e slots; not to mention things like the Talos and
>> > AmigaOne for PowerPC.
>>
>>
>> DRM2 doesn't support anything later than mid-Haswell. The chips in
>> question all pre-date 2007. Users of low-volume hardware on chips from
>> that period are welcome to continue to sustain themselves on the drm2
>> port just as the other 95+% of the user base will use what is now
>> referred to as drm-next. Even by powerpc maintainers' admission DRM2
>> also only barely works there. I've promised Justin that I'll make
>> drm-next work on Talos once POWER9 support is solid enough.
>
> % dmesg | CPU
> CPU: AMD FX(tm)-8350 Eight-Core Processor            (4018.34-MHz K8-class CPU)
> % kldstat
> troutmask:sgk[205] kldstat
> Id Refs Address            Size     Name
>  9    1 0xffffffff8141e000 db148    radeonkms.ko
> 10    1 0xffffffff814fa000 3f7d0    drm2.ko
> 11    2 0xffffffff8153a000 acf8     agp.ko
> 12    1 0xffffffff81545000 12f9     radeonkmsfw_CAICOS_pfp.ko
> 13    1 0xffffffff81547000 16f7     radeonkmsfw_CAICOS_me.ko
> 14    1 0xffffffff81549000 d73      radeonkmsfw_BTC_rlc.ko
> 15    1 0xffffffff8154a000 5f97     radeonkmsfw_CAICOS_mc.ko
>
> Mid-Haswell?
>
> --
> Steve