DRM removal soon

[Yoshihiro Ota]

On Sat, 23 Feb 2019 15:55:57 +0300
Greg V <greg at unrelenting.technology> wrote:

> 
> 
> On Sat, Feb 23, 2019 at 8:31 AM, Yoshihiro Ota <ota at j.email.ne.jp> 
> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > How does this impact VMWare users?
> > I couldn't find much of documents.
> > 
> > I run few FreeBSD versions on MacBook VMWare.
> > 
> > Do we have a different driver for VMWare or go by MacBook's?
> > 
> > I looked at dmesg of another laptop and that reports "Radeon".
> > However, I don't find any "drm" in FreeBSD VMWare dmesg at all.
> > I'm not sure which driver FreeBSD has been picking up.
> 
> Hi, looks like you have not been using *any* GPU driver at all, just a 
> basic framebuffer (efifb or vga) and software rendering.
> 
> Only the new drm-kmod includes vmwgfx, which should bring you GPU 
> support :) https://twitter.com/johalun/status/1056549585106227201
> 

I also got some private emails, too.
Thanks for info.

I gave up VMWare for this one and tried on 3 physical machines.
All 3 machines I tried this time worked okay with ports drivers.

I also found that running kldstat was the easiest way to find which of driver to use instead of dmesg.

Hiro