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Red Hat's Ben Skeggs though has started deleting non-KMS code that is
trimming this NVIDIA X.Org driver by thousands of lines of code. While
user-space mode-setting will no longer work, kernel mode-setting is
the superior solution and is the future. Intel had also recently
dropped support for user-space mode-setting.
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Does anyone (Robert, probably) know, how this will affect FreeBSD in
the near and well, eventually distant future?
I mean, I guess this one typical linux user's comment from Phoronix
discussion probably sums it all, but still, it's hard not to laugh
(hysterically):
"Well, If portability stands in the way of progress, I say to hell
with portability."
Well anyway, are we going to lose Nouveau yet before we even properly
got it, or are there any plans to workaround this "issue"? I mean,
last I heard KMS in FreeBSD is not going to happen for years (if
ever), so what other options are still open?
m.
> Well anyway, are we going to lose Nouveau yet before we even properly
> got it, or are there any plans to workaround this "issue"? I mean,
> last I heard KMS in FreeBSD is not going to happen for years (if
> ever), so what other options are still open?
I second the question. I'll remind that the same had happened with
xf86-video-intel, which doesn't support non-KMS setups since 2.10.0.
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My roadmap is basically, GEM -> TTM -> KMS. GEM, I think I have sorted
out what we need to do. TTM, is a bit more tricky, but at least now, I
think that I now understand the VM system well enough to get some of
this working. KMS on the other hand, needs GEM/TTM to start with and
I'm not yet sure how well it will integrate with syscons.
My main issue right now is time... I just started a new job which has
cut my time for FreeBSD work almost entirely. (read, I'm keeping up
with e-mail and most code has to wait for the weekends.)
I do have a fair amount of stuff queued up to be committed, and a good
bit of cleanup that I would like to knock out.
robert.
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