On Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 11:04 AM, Emil Velikov <emil.l.velikov@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 25 August 2016 at 12:14, Daniel Vetter <daniel@xxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On Thu, Aug 04, 2016 at 09:15:07AM +0100, Chris Wilson wrote: >>> On Thu, Aug 04, 2016 at 10:06:57AM +0200, David Herrmann wrote: >>> > The legacy DRI1 drivers expose highly broken interfaces to user-space. No >>> > modern system should enable them, or you will effectively allow user-space >>> > to circumvent most of your kernel security measures. The DRI1 kernel APIs >>> > are simply broken. >>> > >>> > User-space can always use vesafb/efifb/simplefb and friends to get working >>> > graphics. >>> > >>> > Lets hide the old drivers behind CONFIG_BROKEN. In case they turn out to >>> > be still used (really?), we can easily revert this and figure out a way to >>> > move them out of sight (e.g., moving all DRI1 drivers to >>> > drivers/gpu/dri1/). >>> > >>> > Signed-off-by: David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@xxxxxxxxx> >>> >>> Acked-by: Chris Wilson <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> >>> >>> I'd rather have a couple of distro devs check if they are still using >>> any of these, and would value their a-b/r-b. >> >> Mesa stopped shipping dri1 drivers years ago, and neither Fedora and >> Debian here have that old version packaged (it should keep working since >> the dri loader is an ABI). I don't think anyone needs this, and if I'm >> wrong we'll hear about it ;-) >> > Archlinux (which seems to be picking more users) is still shipping > dri1 drivers - both mesa and X. No idea for many actually use those > and/or for how much longer the packages will be around. > > IIRC the maintainer, Connor, used to hack on the xf86-video-r128 with > plans(?) on getting things KMS aware. Not sure if that was by > extending the existing radeon kernel, ddx, mesa driver(s) or > otherwise. > Connor, can you shed some light ? > r128 is 90% the same as early radeons so it would make sense to add support to radeon. Alex _______________________________________________ dri-devel mailing list dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel
