DRM removal soon

[Warner Losh]

On Sun, Feb 24, 2019, 3:31 AM Yoshihiro Ota <ota at j.email.ne.jp> wrote:

> 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.
>

Thank you for your testing Hirosan.

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

Is this a suggestion for changing the drm-kmod package output? Or just a
helpful hint for others?

Tanks again.

Warner

Hiro
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