Re: CVS commit: src

[Andrius V <vezhlys%gmail.com@localhost>]

Hi,

Sorry, didn't notice the email until today. To answer your question
why it is not enabled in GENERIC by default, I am not sure
(Taylor(?)), it was commented since the day one both on i386 and
amd64.

However, I have some doubts if it is very relevant driver to enable
it. From the context perspective, viadrmums is also a legacy driver,
Linux have already removed it in the latest kernel source code, and
new https://cgit.freedesktop.org/openchrome/drm-openchrome/ was
developed, but haven't made it to official kernel yet (and hard to
tell when and if it will happen at all)). VIA integrated graphics
drivers development was a always a bit of a sad story: lack of
interest, manpower/skills, lack of VIA participation, the hardware is
pretty obscure and under-performing, and likely more suitable for non
graphics related tasks. Myself I used it mainly for NAS and testing
platform, thus I need only basic graphics support. Nevertheless, if it
doesn't affect the development much and it does seem to be work in the
machines I own, I can enable it.

That also reminds me that I wanted to finish unichromefb driver in our
code base, which is unfinished and limited to VX900 support now if I
am not mistaken... Maybe it is time to spend some effort on that...

Regards,
Andrius V


On Thu, Aug 10, 2023 at 12:42 AM matthew green <mrg%eterna.com.au@localhost> wrote:
>
> > Log Message:
> > viadrmums(4): build legacy VIA DRM UMS driver module for amd64.
> >
> > This driver is not built-in by default, thus loadable module can help (un)lucky
>
> if it works, why isn't it in GENERIC as well as a module?
>
> thanks.
>
>
> .mrg.