Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2021 14:31:40 +0200 From: Gary Jennejohn <gljennjohn@gmail.com> To: Scott Bennett <bennett@sdf.org> Cc: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org, danfe@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 3.0-STABLE / drm-kmod / dual radeon problems Message-ID: <20210820123140.7326e0e6@ernst.home> In-Reply-To: <202108201156.17KBuRTQ028474@sdf.org> References: <YR6oOGgSubukUEkQ@phouka1.phouka.net> <YR86yGZBu/YT3cVR@FreeBSD.org> <202108201156.17KBuRTQ028474@sdf.org>
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On Fri, 20 Aug 2021 06:56:27 -0500 Scott Bennett <bennett@sdf.org> wrote: > Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@freebsd.org> wrote: > > > On Thu, Aug 19, 2021 at 11:51:36AM -0700, John Kennedy wrote: > > > [resending to freebsd-x11@ vs x11@] > > > > > > I'm making my semi-annual attempt to convert a windows box to a FreeBSD > > > box and having the same kind of issues. It is a Dell Optiplex 9020 with > > > dual radeon cards (and currently 3 monitors, 4 if I can get it to work). > > > > Similar question (about dual Radeon cards) had been asked on this list > > before* and never answered, AFAIK. Apparently, this configuration does > > not look interesting for developers to test and provide support for. :( > > > > ./danfe > > > > *) https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-x11/2020-September/026609.html > > > I will add that they also seem unwilling to answer whether a firmware bug > that hangs a single Radeon card has even been reported upstream, whether to > X.org or to AMD. They are also unwilling to say whether the DRM bug that > attempts to perform a hard reboot (i.e., without so much as sync(), let alone an > orderly shutdown with UFS unmounts, etc.) in response to a hung GPU has been > reported upstream. > It ought to be a FreeBSD Foundation project to drum up money to hire a > professional GPU programmer (perhaps part-time) and a full-time programmer for > CPU-side graphics support. The latter could devote some of his time toward > managing the graphics team's projects and objectives. With these, perhaps > FreeBSD could finally have native graphics support instead of having to import > ever more of the LINUX kernel into FreeBSD in order to have graphics, even buggy > graphics, at all. > Why should the manufacturers of graphics hardware jump on a FreeBSD bandwagon when they already have lots of Linux developers either employed or with NDAs available to do the dirty work? I must say that the project is lucky that Nvidia is still willing to provide drivers to FreeBSD. Based on my experience from the time when I was developing drivers for ISDN cards for FreeBSD, hardware vendors simply don't have FreeBSD on their radars. Even though I signed a NDA with AVM (one of the bigger ISDN card vendors), I couldn't get any useful information from them at all. I was basically forced to reverse engineer the Linux drivers. Evidently, Linux developers were considered to be a more interesting target than any BSD developer. And that is still the case today. -- Gary Jennejohn
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