[PATCH 9/9] kernel/x86: remove DRM support

[Thibaut]

> Le 29 avr. 2023 à 05:45, Elliott Mitchell <ehem+openwrt at m5p.com> a écrit :
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> On Thu, Apr 27, 2023 at 11:21:28AM +0200, Thibaut wrote:
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>>> Le 27 avr. 2023 à 02:11, Elliott Mitchell <ehem+openwrt at m5p.com> a écrit :
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>> You seem to assume that x86 is only/mainly run on VMs.
>> That is not necessarily the case, and I see no reason to degrade device support that way.
> 
> Okay, as already stated there are at least two solutions to this.
> 
> 1> Turn most functionality into modules and include support for runtime
> loading of kernel modules.
> 
> 2> Create more kernel variants for OpenWRT/x86.

3> leave things as they are.

The current setup supports a very large scope of hardware and virtualizations with minimal fuss, and will happily run with 128M RAM with Luci enabled (I just tested that with 22.03.4 x86/64 stock image in a 128M RAM VM: after boot it had 64M free). Maybe this info could be added to the x86 wiki page.

It’s likely it could even be convinced to run with 64M only if you really needed(?) that, which is the current lowest recommandation across all OpenWrt targets.

So it seems to me you’re trying to fix a problem that isn’t there.

As pointed out by Felix, if you need something highly tailored it’s easy to achieve as well.

HTH
T