[Intel-gfx] [PATCH 04/35] drm: Forbid legacy MAP functions for DRIVER_MODESET
Dave Airlie
airlied at gmail.com
Wed Apr 27 07:12:22 UTC 2016
>> Hm, I thought the referenced commit explained this, but now that I recheck
>> it doesn't. I'm not too sure again myself why I thought nouveau needs
>> this. The legacy ctx stuff is required because of some old kms nouveau ddx
>> that still used that stuff. I thought it also used legacy maps ... I'll
>> double check once more.
>
> Ok, nouveau ddx indeed used legacy addmap and friends, but that code is
> nuked since 2006. That's 10 years, which is the rule of thumb for when we
> can drop support. I'll respin this patch.
> -Daniel
Nope,
commit b1a630b48210d6a3c44994fce1b73273000ace5c
Author: Dave Airlie <airlied at redhat.com>
Date: Wed Nov 7 14:45:14 2012 +1000
nouveau: drop DRI1 device open interface.
Was when it was fixed.
Dave.
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