10.1 kernel device config for drm2 and kms drivers

[Jean-Sébastien Pédron]

On 11.09.2014 08:47, John Marshall wrote:
> I cannot find any kernel device configuration statements for drm2 or KMS
> (e.g. i915kms) drivers in any of the NOTES files in 10-STABLE.
> Presumably configurtation statements for these ought to be available for
> use in kernel configuration files for 10.1-RELEASE?

Currently, building DRM drivers into the kernel isn't supported. I guess
it's mostly a lack of time and demand.

Please file a PR about this so that I keep that in mind. If you have
some time and can prepare a patch, that would help too :)

> At present, the only way I have found to pick them up (short of hacking
> sys/conf/files or building all modules) is by specifying the module in
> make.conf and then adding the load_ directive to loader.conf.

You can also use the following line in your rc.conf:
kld_list="i915kms"

The GPU will be initialized a bit later compared to load_i915kms="yes",
but the kernel will be loaded faster.

Thank you!

-- 
Jean-Sébastien Pédron

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