[RFC] Deprecation and removal of the drm2 driver

[Rodney W. Grimes]

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> On Tue, 29 May 2018 21:28:49 +0200
> Niclas Zeising <zeising at freebsd.org> wrote:
> 
> >On 05/18/18 19:58, Niclas Zeising wrote:
> >> [ Cross posted to freebsd-current@ and freebsd-x11 at .? Please respect
> >> reply-to and send all replies to freebsd-x11 at .? Thanks! ]
> >>
> >> [...]
> >>
> >> What does the community think?? Is there anyone still using the drm2
> >> driver on 12-CURRENT?? If so, what is preventing you from switching to
> >> the port?
> >>
> >
> >
> >Wow, this blew up quite a lot bigger than I anticipated.  I'll try to
> >summarize the discussion a bit below and then suggest a way forward.
> >
> > [...]
> >
> >To move forward, we'll do the following:  Note that this is for current
> >only.
> >We take the drm and drm2 drivers and make a port for it, maintained by
> >the graphics team (x11@).  After a transition period, then the drivers
> >are removed from base.  At the same time, pkg-messages are added to
> >relevant places to point people to the various available drm drivers.
> 
> Let's also remember about our handbooks and those two wiki page:
>  * https://wiki.freebsd.org/Graphics
>  * https://wiki.freebsd.org/Graphics/FAQ
This one has a bit rot on this claim:
	"The i915kms kernel-side driver is already built into the
	 generic FreeBSD kernel. No need to install anything. '

That is slightly miss leading, it is not "built into the generic",
it is avaliable as a module, at least on 11 and 12, not sure on
10 as I dont have 10 running any place anymore.


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Rod Grimes                                                 rgrimes at freebsd.org