Date: Sat, 1 Sep 2018 18:24:45 +0700 From: Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@nsu.ru> To: Niclas Zeising <zeising+freebsd@daemonic.se> Cc: x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: drm2 deprecation in base: problems with gpu-firmware-kmod port Message-ID: <20180901112445.GA27336@regency.nsu.ru> In-Reply-To: <85a7e6ac-6921-f017-6be6-b4ed2768dcb3@daemonic.se> References: <20180829120935.GA79911@regency.nsu.ru> <f89b03ac-334f-64ad-dfbe-f5056032f91e@daemonic.se> <20180829122523.GA82936@regency.nsu.ru> <cc0996a4-ef1e-78b0-6a7c-a0ce2c141947@daemonic.se> <20180829124049.GA84960@regency.nsu.ru> <317f97a7-9cae-0932-b40d-2e8487bce93b@daemonic.se> <20180829130302.GA88024@regency.nsu.ru> <85a7e6ac-6921-f017-6be6-b4ed2768dcb3@daemonic.se>
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On Sat, Sep 01, 2018 at 12:18:44PM +0200, Niclas Zeising wrote:
> On 08/29/18 15:03, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
> > From the ports of course, via good old "svn up && make install".
>
> This is what I meant by "build it yourself" :). s/ports/pkg/ in my
> sentence above and it might make more sense.
Ah, I see. No, I seldom use prebuilt binary packages, I'm oldskool and
prefer to build my software. :)
> Something is strange wrt. the differences in firmware sizes. I can see
> it on my system as well, even though the uuencoded bits are the same.
> Might be that it's just some sort of "branding" since one is built at
> the same time as the kernel and one is not (different paths, debug info
> maybe?). There is also an issue with firmware naming which I have to
> look into. I still find it strange that it wasn't enough to rename the
> firmware blob, but maybe something else is going on.
>
> What exact ATI/AMD graphics card are you using?
$ pciconv -lv:
...
vgapci0@pci0:1:0:0: class=0x030000 card=0x16181462 chip=0x954f1002
rev=0x00 hdr=0x00
vendor = 'Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI]'
device = 'RV710 [Radeon HD 4350/4550]'
class = display
subclass = VGA
> I might be able to dig something up from the pile behind me, otherwise
> I need help testing as well.
I'd gladly assist in testing whatever required.
./danfe
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