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Date:      Mon, 04 Feb 2019 20:10:13 +0300
From:      Greg V <greg@unrelenting.technology>
To:        Phil Norman <philnorm@gmail.com>
Cc:        Pete Wright <pete@nomadlogic.org>, freebsd-x11@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: System lockup on kldload amdgpu
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On Mon, Feb 4, 2019 at 2:39 PM, Phil Norman <philnorm@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi.
>=20
> Finally got around to trying this out. The interesting thing is that=20
> 'hw.syscons.disable=3D1' disables (as seems obvious from the name) the=20
> system console. That means after a few boot messages, I got nothing=20
> more from the console. However, I managed to login remotely and=20
> kldload amdgpu, which made the console work again (although it looks=20
> unusual).

Yep, that's kinda the point =97 the problem it's fixing is that our=20
amdgpu for some reason conflicts with the EFI framebuffer.

Now you just set up the rc.conf to autoload amdgpu, and it's all=20
"normal" =97 you see garbage in between the bootloader and amdgpu=20
loading of course :)

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