Re: Xorg fails after update system to 16.0

Van: Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de>
Datum: maandag, 19 oktober 2026 09:29
Aan: Ruslan Zalata <rz@fabmicro.ru>, FreeBSD CURRENT <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>
Onderwerp: Re: Xorg fails after update system to 16.0
> 
> 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!
> 
> 
> -- 
> Matthias Apitz, guru@unixarea.de, http://www.unixarea.de/ +49-176-38902045
> Public GnuPG key: http://www.unixarea.de/key.pub
>  
> 
> 
> 



If you install graphics/gpu-firmware-kmod, you will install all firmwares automatically. But that is also does a lot more compilation for modules you don't use.
Hope this helps.

Ronald.