Re: git: 3f78a234e458 - main - graphics/gpu-firmware-kmod: optionize firmware vendors

* 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.

> > >  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.

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