From nobody Mon Dec 5 17:49:51 2022 X-Original-To: dev-commits-ports-all@mlmmj.nyi.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mlmmj.nyi.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4NQrrH6Lmbz4kHcs; Mon, 5 Dec 2022 17:58:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from amdmi3@amdmi3.ru) Received: from sprint-2.amdmi3.ru (sprint-2.amdmi3.ru [185.185.68.145]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4NQrrH3YHsz4Jhg; Mon, 5 Dec 2022 17:58:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from amdmi3@amdmi3.ru) Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org; none Received: from amdmi3.ru (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by sprint-2.amdmi3.ru (Postfix) with SMTP id DA5D1187F6F; Mon, 5 Dec 2022 21:01:28 +0300 (MSK) Received: by amdmi3.ru (nbSMTP-1.00) for uid 1000 amdmi3@amdmi3.ru; Mon, 5 Dec 2022 21:01:28 +0300 (MSK) Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2022 20:49:51 +0300 From: Dmitry Marakasov To: Emmanuel Vadot Cc: ports-committers@freebsd.org, dev-commits-ports-all@freebsd.org, dev-commits-ports-main@freebsd.org Subject: Re: git: 3f78a234e458 - main - graphics/gpu-firmware-kmod: optionize firmware vendors Message-ID: References: <202211291718.2ATHISXL015063@gitrepo.freebsd.org> <20221130111151.bbdc3e3b221207cb541daccd@bidouilliste.com> <20221205151109.e86a24dd8a15bb2ae5d55756@bidouilliste.com> List-Id: Commit messages for all branches of the ports repository List-Archive: https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/dev-commits-ports-all List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: Sender: owner-dev-commits-ports-all@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: dev-commits-ports-all@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20221205151109.e86a24dd8a15bb2ae5d55756@bidouilliste.com> X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 4NQrrH3YHsz4Jhg X-Spamd-Bar: ---- X-Spamd-Result: default: False [-4.00 / 15.00]; REPLY(-4.00)[]; ASN(0.00)[asn:35278, ipnet:185.185.68.0/22, country:RU] X-Rspamd-Pre-Result: action=no action; module=replies; Message is reply to one we originated X-ThisMailContainsUnwantedMimeParts: N * Emmanuel Vadot (manu@bidouilliste.com) wrote: > > This is not true because drm-kmod unconditionally pulls > > gpu-firmware-kmod which unconditionally pulls all the firmwares. > > drm-kmod meta-port is made for two reasons : > - Users don't know what hardware they have so a simple pkg install > drm-kmod will install everything. > - Downstream distribution that wants to include everything a user can > have. > > If you know what hardware you have it's better to directly install > drm-510-kmod and gpu-firmware--kmod- packages. I've just realized that drm-kmod is a metaport too and I can just drop both metaports. So the change committed does no longer make any use for me, may be as well useless in general. > > > It's a bit unlikely that one user will need only all > > > the radeon/amd/intel firmwares. > > > > Well in fact there should be an option for each individual firmware, > > but I was lazy. > > No there shouldn't be an option for each firmware, each firmware is a > separate flavor of the main vendor port and this result in a dedicated > package for one GPU. (There is one cavehat for AMD, see below). > > > Another valid case is that I have no idea which specific > > intel firmware I need, I just don't want nvidia/amd garbage. > > Yes this is one problem, I've pondered writing a fwget script to put in > base that will solve this issue, will probably do it one day. > For intel it's kinda easy, just install drm-510-kmod, kldload i915kms > and look in dmesg what firmware the driver says it couldn't load. DRM > will work for intel without firmware, you just can't suspend/resume. > For AMD depending on the GPUs sometimes it will work without a > firmware, sometime it will not, meaning that you will lose the screen > and will need to use serial/ssh (unless it bricks the machine but if > that does it this is a bug that should be solved). Some generations of > AMD gpu needs two firmware packages, this is because AMD reuse some IP > (most of the time it's the VCN, the unit for video decoding/encoding) > that is re-used. -- Dmitry Marakasov . amdmi3@amdmi3.ru ..: https://github.com/AMDmi3 https://amdmi3.ru/