Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2019 23:43:51 -0500 From: Yoshihiro Ota <ota@j.email.ne.jp> To: Greg V <greg@unrelenting.technology> Cc: "freebsd-arch@freebsd.org" <arch@freebsd.org>, FreeBSD X11 mailing list <freebsd-x11@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: DRM removal soon Message-ID: <20190223234351.0addf9de71953eb31136322b@j.email.ne.jp> In-Reply-To: <1550926557.1795.0@unrelenting.technology> References: <CANCZdfptG6hwdDc=RFMUA%2BfA7eMijPycY24dcqPLi7aP-whR-A@mail.gmail.com> <20190223003126.4aec5a01b77ec9bf9ea0992a@j.email.ne.jp> <1550926557.1795.0@unrelenting.technology>
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On Sat, 23 Feb 2019 15:55:57 +0300 Greg V <greg@unrelenting.technology> wrote: > > > On Sat, Feb 23, 2019 at 8:31 AM, Yoshihiro Ota <ota@j.email.ne.jp> > wrote: > > Hi, > > > > How does this impact VMWare users? > > I couldn't find much of documents. > > > > I run few FreeBSD versions on MacBook VMWare. > > > > Do we have a different driver for VMWare or go by MacBook's? > > > > I looked at dmesg of another laptop and that reports "Radeon". > > However, I don't find any "drm" in FreeBSD VMWare dmesg at all. > > I'm not sure which driver FreeBSD has been picking up. > > Hi, looks like you have not been using *any* GPU driver at all, just a > basic framebuffer (efifb or vga) and software rendering. > > Only the new drm-kmod includes vmwgfx, which should bring you GPU > support :) https://twitter.com/johalun/status/1056549585106227201 > I also got some private emails, too. Thanks for info. I gave up VMWare for this one and tried on 3 physical machines. All 3 machines I tried this time worked okay with ports drivers. I also found that running kldstat was the easiest way to find which of driver to use instead of dmesg. Hiro
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