Direct hardware bashing modules (int10 et al) and recent hardware

Mark Kettenis mark.kettenis at xs4all.nl
Fri Nov 20 09:34:21 PST 2015


> Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2015 17:43:44 +0100
> From: Francois Tigeot <ftigeot at wolfpond.org>
> 
> On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 10:06:51AM -0500, Adam Jackson wrote:
> > On Thu, 2015-11-19 at 12:07 +0000, Emil Velikov wrote:
> > 
> > Removing fbdevhw would break mga and r128 and a few others on non-x86.
> 
> FWIW, I have removed support for old legacy drm drivers one year ago
> in DragonFly. Nobody even noticed they were gone.
> 
> Nowadays, the known working pieces of graphic hardware only use the
> Radeon, i915 or Vesa drivers.

Dragonfly only runs on x86 hardware.  The legacy drivers are still
being used on OpenBSD.  This is especially true for the r128 and
mach64 drivers.


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