Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2020 14:14:29 +0000 (UTC) From: Greg V <greg@unrelenting.technology> To: Cait Smith <kit@hypostasis.com> Cc: x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: AMDGPU Picasso on Thinkpad X395 Message-ID: <f5af8291-0f8a-4d70-bfdc-ff2a1ddd0d82@localhost> In-Reply-To: <E98C2011-1E9B-4CCF-9FA5-F2CD6AAE84FA@hypostasis.com> References: <E98C2011-1E9B-4CCF-9FA5-F2CD6AAE84FA@hypostasis.com>
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Mar 3, 2020 2:26:51 PM Cait Smith : > Hi All > > I=E2=80=99ve been away from *BSD for a long while but I=E2=80=99m now thr= owing FreeBSD at a Lenovo Thinkpad X395 Nice. Does suspend/resume work? I've heard that it does on Ryzen Mobile, bu= t more confirmations would be good. > I have had wifi and X running under a recent CURRENT and I am currently r= ebuilding a 12.1-RELEASE (I probably should have partitioned the drive and = installed both for testing) ZFS boot environments. Forget anything you've ever heard about actual (GPT)= partitions :) > With CURRENT and drm-devel it picks up the GPU just fine (attached dmesg.= boot) and I=E2=80=99m happy to play there, although I am no kernel hacker. = I also can see the amdgpu/picasso firmware being loaded with 12.1-RELEASE a= nd the drivers / firmware compiled and installed from FreeBSDDesktop, and I= =E2=80=99m just now rebuilding xorg from ports to see how that goes. > > My question is this. What is my best course for moderate to reasonable st= ability and to best provide feedback (or testing)? > > I=E2=80=99m considering following CURRENT, following STABLE with a CURREN= T kernel for the drm-devel port, or 12.1 RELEASE with manually added drm-v5= .0. I=E2=80=99m beginning to think that CURRENT is probably cleanest, thoug= h I may want to drop some of the debug and test code so that I can get some= work done :) Yeah, I use current with a non-invariants kernel (e.g. generic-nodebug) eve= rywhere.
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