Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2022 19:06:40 +0100 From: Emmanuel Vadot <manu@bidouilliste.com> To: Dmitry Marakasov <amdmi3@amdmi3.ru> 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: <20221205190640.7fccd5ecc7acbb331274abcb@bidouilliste.com> In-Reply-To: <Y44vP9uXFJAWg9pF@hades.panopticon> References: <202211291718.2ATHISXL015063@gitrepo.freebsd.org> <20221130111151.bbdc3e3b221207cb541daccd@bidouilliste.com> <Y43zhE8pmAYLLTpu@hades.panopticon> <20221205151109.e86a24dd8a15bb2ae5d55756@bidouilliste.com> <Y44vP9uXFJAWg9pF@hades.panopticon>
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On Mon, 5 Dec 2022 20:49:51 +0300 Dmitry Marakasov <amdmi3@amdmi3.ru> wrote: > * 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-<vendor>-kmod-<model> 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. Please revert then. Cheers, > > > > 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/ > -- Emmanuel Vadot <manu@bidouilliste.com> <manu@FreeBSD.org>
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