[PATCH 2/2] drm: make DRI1 drivers depend on BROKEN

[Emil Velikov]

Hi Kevin,

On 26 August 2016 at 01:19, Kevin Brace <kevinbrace at gmx.com> wrote:

> I do not want to be seen as stopping progress, but there are still people who use less than current hardware (myself and countless others) or non Big 3 x86 graphics (NVIDIA, AMD, and Intel) for things like thin clients.

[snip]
> Anyway, regarding the move to DRI2 / KMS so that DRI1 can be discontinued, I am not personally against it in the long run, but the work on it has stalled.
>
Afaict nobody is discontinuing DRI1, but marking it as BROKEN. Why you
may ask - simply because there has been virtually zero development
effort (general refactoring do not count) and serious testing, for
those drivers over the last 5+ years.

FWIW I would strongly recommend leaving UMS at peace and working
towards KMS. Having a hybrid UMS/KMS stack is possible, but it's far
too picky and time consuming even for larger teams.
On the forward porting efforts - DRM evolves rapidly so one could
consider starting from scratch. Wire up the (atomic?) mode setting
side first then think about the render side of things.

Regards,
Emil