Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2020 17:21:21 +0000 From: greg@unrelenting.technology To: "John F Carr" <jfc@mit.edu>, freebsd-arm@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Graphics on arm64 Message-ID: <e78e2df074ab51437640c927676fa849@unrelenting.technology> In-Reply-To: <B9571980-064A-4243-83CB-1D5782722735@exchange.mit.edu> References: <B9571980-064A-4243-83CB-1D5782722735@exchange.mit.edu>
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January 25, 2020 5:07 PM, "John F Carr" <jfc@mit.edu> wrote:=0A=0A> What = happens if I put a PCIe graphics card in a 64 bit ARM system? If I parse = the ports tree=0A> correctly there is no X support, or possibly only supp= ort as a generic VGA device. Is that correct?=0A> Is anybody on freebsd-a= rm working on graphics? If there's active interest I may be able to help,= =0A> but it's not a project I want to take on alone.=0A> =0A> I see three= packages in ports/graphics:=0A> =0A> drm-legacy-kmod is marked broken fo= r aarch64=0A> drm-current-kmod is only for x86 and PPC=0A> drm-devel-kmod= is only for x86 and PPC=0A=0AI guess nobody bothered to fix the whitelis= t in the port, but devel should work if it's up to date with git =E2=80= =94 I made Radeon work last summer: https://github.com/FreeBSDDesktop/kms= -drm/pull/154 :)=0A=0A> Historically getting graphics cards to work has o= ften required binary-only Linux drivers which=0A> wouldn't be available f= or ARM. Maybe that's not true for Radeon these days. But even today the= =0A> strategy seems to be "take whatever Linux can give us".=0A=0A"Binary= -only" is only true for nvidia, and even then it's not Linux-only (they s= upport FreeBSD and OpenSolaris), and then there's nouveau (which we don't= have ported, but NetBSD does).=0A=0AWhen Intel ships their discrete PCIe= GPUs, they could also be made to work on ARM! :D But for now it's only R= adeon.
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