Maintaining the DRM driver takes a lot of recourses as there they are depending on many API changes done to the core kernel code and currently we do not have that many recourses to follow them. On the other side one needs also new userspace drivers to make use of the new features added to the DRM kernel drivers and it is not easy to update the X drivers. Therefore we came to the conclusion to remove the drm drivers for now. If someone wants to maintain the DRM drivers I would be very happy with that and they should not be removed. There were also some problems with some DRM drivers, like the Intel i915 driver caused kernel panic on some systems and was probably only usable on some very recent kernel versions. 1 2.6.25 [ OK ] 2 2.6.26 [ OK ] 3 2.6.27 [ OK ] 4 2.6.28 [ OK ] 5 2.6.29 [ OK ] 6 2.6.30 [ OK ] 7 2.6.31 [ OK ] 8 2.6.32 [ OK ] 9 2.6.33 [ OK ] 10 2.6.34 [ OK ] 11 2.6.35 [ OK ] 12 2.6.36 [ OK ] 13 2.6.37 [ OK ] 14 2.6.38 [ OK ] 15 2.6.39 [ OK ] 16 3.0.98 [ OK ] 17 3.1.10 [ OK ] 18 3.10.14 [ OK ] 19 3.11.3 [ OK ] 20 3.12-rc3 [ FAIL ] 21 3.2.51 [ OK ] 22 3.3.8 [ OK ] 23 3.4.64 [ OK ] 24 3.5.7 [ OK ] 25 3.6.11 [ OK ] 26 3.7.10 [ OK ] 27 3.8.13 [ OK ] 28 3.9.11 [ OK ] You can pull it from https://github.com/hauke/backports/tree/drm-remove This is based on the "backports: add next-20130822" patch series. Hauke Mehrtens (15): backports: remove DRM driver backports: remove platform drivers backports: remove BACKPORT_BUILD_CROSS_RESERVATION backports: remove CPTCFG_BACKPORT_BUILD_WW_MUTEX backports: remove BACKPORT_BUILD_RADIX_HELPERS backports: remove BACKPORT_BUILD_HDMI backports: remove more hdmi stuff backports: remove some stuff related to MTRR backports: remove scatterlist backports: remove ktime_get_monotonic_offset() backports: remove devm_regmap_init_spi() backports: remove compat_wake_up_locked() backports: remove i2c_bit_algo() backports: remove cpufreq_quick_get_max() backports: remove shmem_read_mapping_page_gfp() backport/Kconfig | 4 - backport/Makefile.kernel | 3 - backport/backport-include/asm/mtrr.h | 21 - backport/backport-include/linux/cpufreq.h | 13 - backport/backport-include/linux/hdmi.h | 36 -- backport/backport-include/linux/hrtimer.h | 11 - backport/backport-include/linux/i2c-algo-bit.h | 12 - backport/backport-include/linux/io.h | 38 -- backport/backport-include/linux/radix-tree.h | 218 ------- backport/backport-include/linux/regmap.h | 5 - backport/backport-include/linux/reservation.h | 70 -- backport/backport-include/linux/scatterlist.h | 69 -- backport/backport-include/linux/shmem_fs.h | 39 -- backport/backport-include/linux/wait.h | 14 - backport/backport-include/linux/ww_mutex.h | 333 ---------- backport/compat/Kconfig | 41 -- backport/compat/Makefile | 4 - backport/compat/backport-3.11.c | 92 --- backport/compat/backport-3.12.c | 51 -- backport/compat/compat-3.0.c | 26 - backport/compat/compat-3.1.c | 23 - backport/compat/compat-3.4.c | 543 ---------------- backport/compat/compat-3.5.c | 14 - backport/compat/compat-3.9.c | 43 -- backport/compat/drivers-base-reservation.c | 39 -- backport/compat/kernel/ww_mutex.c | 669 -------------------- backport/compat/lib-radix-tree-helpers.c | 266 -------- backport/defconfigs/drm | 49 -- copy-list | 44 -- dependencies | 18 - .../drm/0001-fb-info-vt_switch/INFO | 44 -- .../drivers_gpu_drm_i915_intel_fb.patch | 11 - .../drm/02-revert-vm_mmap/INFO | 5 - .../drivers_gpu_drm_drm_bufs.patch | 31 - .../drivers_gpu_drm_i810_i810_dma.patch | 37 -- .../10-radeon-revert-acpi-table-size-check/INFO | 3 - .../drivers_gpu_drm_radeon_radeon_bios.patch | 24 - .../drivers_gpu_drm_drm_modes.patch | 15 - .../drm/12-revert-remove_proc_subtree/INFO | 25 - .../drivers_gpu_drm_drm_proc.patch | 62 -- .../drm/13-nouveau-include-fix/INFO | 2 - .../drivers_gpu_drm_nouveau_Makefile.patch | 11 - .../14-shrinkers-api/drivers_gpu_drm_i915.patch | 116 ---- .../drm/14-shrinkers-api/drivers_gpu_drm_ttm.patch | 105 --- .../drm/15-intel-gtt/drivers_gpu_drm_i915.patch | 29 - .../drm/16-remove-energy-read/i915.patch | 28 - 46 files changed, 3356 deletions(-) delete mode 100644 backport/backport-include/asm/mtrr.h delete mode 100644 backport/backport-include/linux/cpufreq.h delete mode 100644 backport/backport-include/linux/hdmi.h delete mode 100644 backport/backport-include/linux/hrtimer.h delete mode 100644 backport/backport-include/linux/i2c-algo-bit.h delete mode 100644 backport/backport-include/linux/io.h delete mode 100644 backport/backport-include/linux/radix-tree.h delete mode 100644 backport/backport-include/linux/reservation.h delete mode 100644 backport/backport-include/linux/shmem_fs.h delete mode 100644 backport/backport-include/linux/ww_mutex.h delete mode 100644 backport/compat/backport-3.11.c delete mode 100644 backport/compat/drivers-base-reservation.c delete mode 100644 backport/compat/kernel/ww_mutex.c delete mode 100644 backport/compat/lib-radix-tree-helpers.c delete mode 100644 backport/defconfigs/drm delete mode 100644 patches/collateral-evolutions/drm/0001-fb-info-vt_switch/INFO delete mode 100644 patches/collateral-evolutions/drm/0001-fb-info-vt_switch/drivers_gpu_drm_i915_intel_fb.patch delete mode 100644 patches/collateral-evolutions/drm/02-revert-vm_mmap/INFO delete mode 100644 patches/collateral-evolutions/drm/02-revert-vm_mmap/drivers_gpu_drm_drm_bufs.patch delete mode 100644 patches/collateral-evolutions/drm/02-revert-vm_mmap/drivers_gpu_drm_i810_i810_dma.patch delete mode 100644 patches/collateral-evolutions/drm/10-radeon-revert-acpi-table-size-check/INFO delete mode 100644 patches/collateral-evolutions/drm/10-radeon-revert-acpi-table-size-check/drivers_gpu_drm_radeon_radeon_bios.patch delete mode 100644 patches/collateral-evolutions/drm/11-videomode-includes/drivers_gpu_drm_drm_modes.patch delete mode 100644 patches/collateral-evolutions/drm/12-revert-remove_proc_subtree/INFO delete mode 100644 patches/collateral-evolutions/drm/12-revert-remove_proc_subtree/drivers_gpu_drm_drm_proc.patch delete mode 100644 patches/collateral-evolutions/drm/13-nouveau-include-fix/INFO delete mode 100644 patches/collateral-evolutions/drm/13-nouveau-include-fix/drivers_gpu_drm_nouveau_Makefile.patch delete mode 100644 patches/collateral-evolutions/drm/14-shrinkers-api/drivers_gpu_drm_i915.patch delete mode 100644 patches/collateral-evolutions/drm/14-shrinkers-api/drivers_gpu_drm_ttm.patch delete mode 100644 patches/collateral-evolutions/drm/15-intel-gtt/drivers_gpu_drm_i915.patch delete mode 100644 patches/collateral-evolutions/drm/16-remove-energy-read/i915.patch -- 1.7.10.4 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe backports" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
