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Date:      Sat, 24 Aug 2019 11:29:50 +0300
From:      Greg V <greg@unrelenting.technology>
To:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org, "Clay Daniels Jr." <clay.daniels.jr@gmail.com>, "freebsd-current@freebsd.org" <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: "amdgpu and radeonkms are known to fail with EFI Boot"
Message-ID:  <F131C0ED-A0F1-45CA-AFA4-CBC516C96607@unrelenting.technology>
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On August 24, 2019 10:15:22 AM GMT+03:00, "Clay Daniels Jr=2E" <clay=2Edani=
els=2Ejr@gmail=2Ecom> wrote:
>From the kmod ports, dated 20190814
>
>
>/usr/ports/graphics/drm-current-kmod/pkg-descr
>
>"amdgpu and radeonkms are known to fail with EFI Boot"
>
>
>/usr/ports/graphics/drm-current-kmod/pkg-message
>
>"some positive reports if EFI is not enabled"
>
>
>Any practical suggestions on getting drm-current-kmod to work on an AMD
>machine, including how to NOT enable EFI? I did not see that option on
>the
>install menu=2E

"Not enabling" EFI means booting the installer in legacy more (CSM)=2E Ins=
taller images are universal, so you'd have to instruct the firmware to igno=
re the EFI loader on there=2E Deleting the EFI partition might work I guess=
=2E rEFInd can force CSM boot a USB drive=2E

I do not recommend this=2E Instead, there is a workaround for the EFI fram=
ebuffer conflict=2E If you have it (i=2Ee=2E amdgpu fails to load, or hangs=
 when starting GUI), boot with hw=2Esyscons=2Edisable=3D1=2E You won't see =
anything on the screen after the boot loader and before loading the driver =
:) but that's not a big deal when the driver autoloads successfully=2E



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