priority of paths to kernel modules?
Niclas Zeising
zeising at freebsd.org
Fri Aug 24 22:20:29 UTC 2018
On 08/24/18 17:20, Warner Losh wrote:
> This would allow the graphics port to have a rc script that sets
> this up so when X11 goes to automatically load the module, the right one
> gets loaded.
>
I just want to point out that X11 doesn't load the graphics kernel
driver by default when using the drm-*-kmod ports, and I'm not sure the
hack to have the intel ddx (xf86-video-intel) load the drm2 driver is
still around.
It doesn't really matter though, since upstream is moving away from
having X load the driver, and I'd like us to follow suit by using
devmatch (this is one of the reasons we wanted to get rid of the base
drivers, as I've stated before). X can't always know which driver to
load (when using modesetting for instance), and in my opinion, it should
be the kernel/loader that decides which drivers to load.
Regards
--
Niclas Zeising
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