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Date:      Thu, 11 May 2023 11:59:49 +0200
From:      Emmanuel Vadot <manu@bidouilliste.com>
To:        Oleksandr Kryvulia <shuriku@shurik.kiev.ua>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: CFT: fwget(8)
Message-ID:  <20230511115949.43846c83ebe51aba7d4acb14@bidouilliste.com>
In-Reply-To: <dd4b6925-1ce7-6359-c17a-df6798095925@shurik.kiev.ua>
References:  <20230511095909.2b4565365e0818fb20b08a8d@bidouilliste.com> <dd4b6925-1ce7-6359-c17a-df6798095925@shurik.kiev.ua>

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On Thu, 11 May 2023 12:03:51 +0300
Oleksandr Kryvulia <shuriku@shurik.kiev.ua> wrote:

> 11.05.23 10:59, Emmanuel Vadot ????:
> >   Hello,
> >
> > Recently I've adde the fwget(8) utility, see
> > https://cgit.freebsd.org/src/commit/?id=3Dd198b8774d2cfb6f140893e1c6236=
af9e97d1497
> >
> >   The goal of this program is to scan the hardware and download the
> > needed firmwares, for now it only do that for Intel GPUs and recent AMD
> > GPUs (the one supported by amdgpu.ko).
> >
> >   I'd like to know if I handled correctly the mapping between ids on
> > Intel and AMD GPUs (for i915kms and amdgpu drm module).
> >   I'm pretty sure that Intel is correct but I could have messed up some
> > AMD ones. Also for some AMD GPUs you need two firmware generations and
> > it's hard to know by looking at the code. It would be good to fix any
> > bugs/miss-match before 14.0
> >   The best way to test if everything works is :
> >
> >   1/ pkg delete gpu-firmware-\*
> >   2/ (optional) pkg install drm-515-kmod/drm-510-kmod (if you had the
> > meta package drm-kmod installed it would have been removed in step 1)
> >   3/ fwget
> >   4/ kldload i915kms/amdgpu
> >
> >   For i915kms just check dmesg for lines saying something like
> >   "drmn0: successfully loaded firmware image ...", this means that
> > everything is correct for your hardware.
> >   If you see a line like
> >   "drmn0: could not load firmware image ..."
> >   please open a PR on bugzilla with dmesg and pciconf -vl attached.
> >   Note that firmware for i915kms are optional, they only help with power
> > management and suspend/resume.
> >
> >   For amdgpu the driver will fail to attach and you will loose the
> > display if the firmwares aren't present so you will need to ssh into
> > the machine to check for similar lines like i915kms.
> >
> >   Thanks,
> >
>=20
> Hi,
> for me it correctly detects needed package=20
> gpu-firmware-intel-kmod-kabylake, but not install it.
> Propposed fix:
>=20
> - pkg install -q ${package}
> + pkg install -qy ${package}

 Yes this is on purpose, I didn't wanted to automatically install
packages until bugs where solved, but I planned to enable this before
14.0.

 Cheers,

--=20
Emmanuel Vadot <manu@bidouilliste.com> <manu@freebsd.org>



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