drm2 in base

[Steve Kargl]

On Fri, Sep 28, 2018 at 02:47:39PM -0500, Matthew D. Fuller wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 28, 2018 at 11:00:02AM -0700 I heard the voice of
> Steve Kargl, and lo! it spake thus:
> > 
> > I have a radeon HD 6450 video card (CAICOS firmware), and have been
> > informed that the hardware is too old for graphics/drm-stable-kmod
> > and that I should use graphics/drm-legacy-kmod.  
> 
> Well, please don't tell that to the 6450 I've got running on
> drm-next-kmod (which also spent some time on drm-stable)...
> 

See the URL I posted.

How did you get around the "fence_wait returned with error -512"
messages filling /var/log/messages.


It also does not get around the problem that
drm-legacy-kmod has been advertised as the drop-in
replacement for those that use drm2 and have older
hardware.

But, thanks for your constructive input.

-- 
Steve