drm2 deprecation in base: problems with gpu-firmware-kmod port

[Alexey Dokuchaev]

On Wed, Aug 29, 2018 at 02:32:01PM +0200, Niclas Zeising wrote:
> On 08/29/18 14:40, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
> >On Wed, Aug 29, 2018 at 02:06:34PM +0200, Niclas Zeising wrote:
> >>On 08/29/18 14:25, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
> >>>   -radeonkmsfw_RV710_pfp: could not load firmware image, error 2
> >>>   +radeonkmsfw_RV710_pfp: firmware image loaded, but did not register
> >>
> >>Just for clarification, is that a change in the message (with the + and
> >>- as in diff) or the entire message?
> >
> >It's a diff :) sorry for not mentioning; I've omitted some other nearby
> >changes which are due to [drm:pid????] being different.
> >
> >>I have to look into this a bit more.
> 
> This is quite strange.  Did you install the firmware port from ports, or
> did you build it yourself?

>From the ports of course, via good old "svn up && make install".

> Looking at the actual firmware files (the uuencoded binary blobs) they
> are the same (same sha256 sum) in both the source for the
> gpu-firmware-kmod package and from what's in [-CURRENT].

I can't update to the tip of the HEAD due to my world being June 9ish and
I'd rather not rebuild everything right now, but I'd assume that firmware
for old RV710 did not change and should be the same between kernels from
June 9 vs. when it was recently reverted.

> It might be that they are built slightly differnt though, I guess.

I'll have a closer look myself as well once I have some spare time cycles;
things are a bit hectic here at $work ATM.

./danfe