Ubuntu 17.04 Drops DRM Support For Old VIA, SiS, R128 GPUs

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Ubuntu 17.04 Drops DRM Support For Old VIA, SiS, R128 GPUs

The stock kernel of Ubuntu 17.04 is doing away with Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) support for a number of ancient graphics processors...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Ubuntu-17.04-Slimmer-DRM

[Azrael5]

it concerns with chipset which provides embedded video support. Right?

[W-Floyd]

I understand why they're doing it, but it's a pity :/ I guess I'll have to go with older releases for my one SiS machine.

[Wilfred]

Just dump the stuff in the recycle bin. An intel celeron kaby lake is cheap and will save you money in electrical costs. Would an rpi3 not also be faster?

[devius]

Just dump the stuff in the recycle bin.

Or give it to me. I'm accepting donations of old hardware

[dungeon]

Or just put Windows XP on these Last driver for Rage 128 was in year 2002. so 15 years ago

http://support.amd.com/en-us/download/archive/legacy-xp

How small was drivers bundles back then... just 7-9 MB and that also include control panel, while current linux driver bundle are 116 MB without control panel support

Full featured Windows drivers and we are speaking of half a GB driver and that also very good compressed one Back in Rage time most people didn't have this big HDDs... future is bloatware, really

[L_A_G]

I'm honestly surprised that they haven't dropped support for those chips years ago. Exposing insecure APIs to userspace is bad when something is still being maintained, but it's even worse when it's not being maintained anymore.

So goodbye and good riddance!

[dungeon]

I'm honestly surprised that they haven't dropped support for those chips years ago.

It was obsoleted or better to say dropped and was unaccelerated really, these UMS drivers was dropped as of Mesa 8 or something, so 5 years ago. But actually no one cared much of these since 8 years ago or so

After that it was only literal or should i say paperware and basic support

[bug77]

... Back in Rage time most people didn't have this big HDDs... future is bloatware, really

Back then we were on 14.4kbps dial-up. 100kB/min dl ftw!!!

[dungeon]

Back then we were on 14.4kbps dial-up. 100kB/min dl ftw!!!

I don't think that is the reason, for example ARM see Mali blob drivers they are still in that area

https://developer.arm.com/products/s...ers/user-space

So i can only conclude that mainline x86 and future non-proof drivers tend to be bloat on average