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

Chris Wilson chris at chris-wilson.co.uk
Mon Mar 31 17:44:47 CEST 2014


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.

> 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>
-Chris

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Chris Wilson, Intel Open Source Technology Centre



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