[RFC] Deprecation and removal of the drm2 driver

[M&S - Krasznai András]

hi

I am using a Lenovo T510 laptop with FreeBSD-CURRENT.

It contains Intel I5 processor and integrated Intel graphics adapter.

I tried to set it to drm-stable-kmod as well as to drm-next-kmod, none was working, I got a fatal trap, kernel panic during boot.

Compiling the packages on my system did not help. The graphics adapter can be old for drm-xxxx-kmod packages.

Drm2 from the base works correctly on my laptop.

rgds

Andras Krasznai




-----Eredeti üzenet-----
Feladó: owner-freebsd-current at freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-current at freebsd.org] Meghatalmazó Philip Homburg
Küldve: 2018. május 23. 11:49
Címzett: Rodney W. Grimes
Másolatot kap: K. Macy; A. Wilcox; FreeBSD Current
Tárgy: Re: [RFC] Deprecation and removal of the drm2 driver 

>Also as the Moore's law curve flattens expect the life of these
>older, but not so old, machines to live quiet some time.  I
>believe we are talking sandy bridge and earlier?  If that is
>corret Sandy bridge is still a very viable system.

I noticed this lack of love for older systems recently. 

I wanted to use an older Dell server to test the 11.2 BETAs and RCs.

Turns out, you can't install FreeBSD using a USB stick image because the
BIOS only support MBR. No idea why MBR support was dropped for the USB images.

In the end I had to find a CD burner, and after a couple of tries managed to
install from CD.

After that, my ansible playbooks started failing because /boot/loader.conf 
is absent if you boot from zfs in combination with MBR.

Pity. This older server hardware is great for trying out new releases, play 
with zfs, etc.
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