Re: Xorg fails after update system to 16.0

From: Matthias Apitz <guru_at_unixarea.de>
Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2026 07:29:41 UTC 
El día lunes, octubre 19, 2026 a las 08:06:14 +0200, Matthias Apitz escribió:

> As I said above, there is also something missind:
> 
> > > Oct 18 22:33:16 ASUS-150 kernel: drmn0: could not load firmware image
> > > 'amdgpu/green_sardine_sdma.bin'
> 
> ...
>
> What do I miss? Do I need the amdgpu_green_sardine_* files? If not, why
> is amdgpu.ko complaining about is absence.
> 

I looked into the ports files and as guess I set the env var 

FLAVOR=green_sardine

this made the other package, I installed it and Xorg comes up fine.
Details see below.

Is this the way it should work, setting FLAVOR?

Thanks

	matthias


# cd /usr/ports/graphics/gpu-firmware-amd-kmod

# ls -l
total 60
-rw-r--r--  1 root wheel  2887 Oct 18 13:44 Makefile
-rw-r--r--  1 root wheel   209 Oct 18 13:44 distinfo
-rw-r--r--  1 root wheel   104 Oct 18 13:44 pkg-descr
-rw-r--r--  1 root wheel 35224 Oct 18 13:44 pkg-plist

The files are identically with the files in
https://cgit.freebsd.org/ports/tree/graphics/gpu-firmware-amd-kmod
and Makefile cantains a lot of FLAVORs:

PORTNAME=       gpu-firmware-amd-kmod
PORTVERSION=    20260519
CATEGORIES=     graphics

MAINTAINER=     x11@FreeBSD.org
COMMENT=        Firmware modules for ${FLAVOR} AMD GPUs
WWW=            https://github.com/freebsd/drm-kmod-firmware


...
FLAVORS=        aldebaran \
                aldebaran_ip_discovery \
                arcturus \
                arcturus_ip_discovery \
		...
		green_sardine \
		...

# nohup make clean
# grep green nohup.out
===>  Cleaning for gpu-firmware-amd-kmod-green-sardine-20260519.1600028
# nohup make package
appending output to nohup.out

# grep install nohup.out
===> amdgpukmsfw (install)
===> amdgpukmsfw/aldebaran_mec (install)
install -T release -o root -g wheel -m 444   amdgpu_aldebaran_mec_bin.ko /usr/ports/graphics/gpu-firmware-amd-kmod/work-aldebaran/stage/boot/modules/
===> amdgpukmsfw/aldebaran_mec2 (install)
install -T release -o root -g wheel -m 444   amdgpu_aldebaran_mec2_bin.ko /usr/ports/graphics/gpu-firmware-amd-kmod/work-aldebaran/stage/boot/modules/
===> amdgpukmsfw/aldebaran_rlc (install)
install -T release -o root -g wheel -m 444   amdgpu_aldebaran_rlc_bin.ko /usr/ports/graphics/gpu-firmware-amd-kmod/work-aldebaran/stage/boot/modules/
...
(only aldebaran stuff)


# grep Building nohup.out
===>  Building for gpu-firmware-amd-kmod-aldebaran-20260519.1600028
===>  Building packages for gpu-firmware-amd-kmod-aldebaran-20260519.1600028
===>   Building gpu-firmware-amd-kmod-aldebaran-20260519.1600028

# export FLAVOR=green_sardine
# make package
===>  Building packages for gpu-firmware-amd-kmod-green-sardine-20260519.1600028
===>   Building gpu-firmware-amd-kmod-green-sardine-20260519.1600028

# find work-* -name '*.pkg'
work-aldebaran/pkg/gpu-firmware-amd-kmod-aldebaran-20260519.1600028.pkg
work-green_sardine/pkg/gpu-firmware-amd-kmod-green-sardine-20260519.1600028.pkg





# pkg install work-green_sardine/pkg/gpu-firmware-amd-kmod-green-sardine-20260519.1600028.pkg

# kldload amdgpu
(no PANIC)


# ls -lL /dev/dri
total 0
crw-rw----  1 root video  0x9e Oct 19 09:19 card0
crw-rw----  1 root video 0x11e Oct 19 09:19 renderD128

an Xorg comes up fine!


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