The Linux Kernel Preparing To Drop Infrastructure For Old & Obsolete Graphics Drivers
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    1 year ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:

    The ATI Rage 128, 3Dfx, S3 Savage, Intel 810, SiS, VIA and Matrox MGA DRM drivers were what was phased out in Linux 6.3.

    Thomas Zimmermann of SUSE is now aiming to take things one step further by removing the infrastructure for user-space mode-setting.

    Zimmermann wrote on dri-devel: The old drivers for user-space mode setting have been removed in Linux v6.3.

    The recent Linux v6.6 has been designated as long-term release, so any remaining users have a few more years to get a new graphics card.

    These 14 patches get rid of another 8k lines of legacy code within the Direct Rendering Manager subsystem.

    If no objections are raised, this legacy user-space mode-setting infrastructure removal could happen for the Linux 6.8 kernel cycle in the new year.

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