On Mon, 2024-10-07 at 10:42 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: > I noticed that the vesa and fbdev X.org drivers were recently retired > from Rawhide. There appears to be no Change for this. The commit > messages for the retirements refer to this old Change: > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/ReplaceFbdevDrivers#Detailed_Description > > but that Change was for Fedora 36, and was considered "completed" at > the time with no removal of any X.org drivers. The scope of that Change > says nothing about retiring X.org drivers. > > This has had at least one substantial impact that somebody noticed: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/message/BU46CQS64XWVDANVXLXUE3KVLZLWPSG5/ > > booting with 'nomodeset', which has decades of history as a standard > workaround for having some kind of issue with the native driver for > your hardware, no longer works, it seems. > > To me this is a significant change which maybe should be a Change, not > just slipped in with reference to a Change from six releases ago which > did not have this in its scope. I've checked, and it appears this has now mostly also been applied to Fedora 41 :( xorg-x11-drv-fbdev has been retired in F41. xorg-x11-drv-vesa has not, but there is no installable build of it at present, and xorg-x11-server has been set to Obsolete it: https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/xorg-x11-server/c/083eae606156350e911d9ad663a9219a92dbe363?branch=f41 I believe this was done *way* too late for Fedora 41 (after Beta!) and without anywhere near sufficient advance notification and discussion. We have not run the "basic video driver" tests since Beta, but I'm very worried they will be broken. I'll run them today and see. -- Adam Williamson (he/him/his) Fedora QA Fedora Chat: @adamwill:fedora.im | Mastodon: @adamw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx https://www.happyassassin.net -- _______________________________________________ test mailing list -- test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to test-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
