[Intel-gfx] [PATCH 1/3] drm/i915: Deprecate UMS harder

[Daniel Vetter]

On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 04:44:47PM +0100, Chris Wilson wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 04:23:03PM +0200, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> > Progess according to the deprecation plan laid out in
> > 
> > commit b30324adaf8d2e5950a602bde63030d15a61826f
> > Author: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter at ffwll.ch>
> > Date:   Wed Nov 13 22:11:25 2013 +0100
> > 
> >     drm/i915: Deprecated UMS support
> > 
> > and disable UMS for 3.16.
> 
> Please reiterate that it has been 5 years since the last userspace to
> support UMS was released.

Done

> > Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter at ffwll.ch>
> 
> I agree that we should mark UMS as BROKEN, it no longer receives testing
> and untested code is broken. I feel a it saddened as for those people
> who still insist that UMS is better (usually because the BIOS breaks
> something) should be left untouched.
> 
> Acked-by: Chris Wilson <chris at chris-wilson.co.uk>

and merged the patch. I guess we'll figure out soon whether we need to
back off on this since 3.14 (which is the first release with the
deprecated UMS) is now out the door ...
-Daniel
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Daniel Vetter
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