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

[Alexey Dokuchaev]

On Sat, Sep 01, 2018 at 12:18:44PM +0200, Niclas Zeising wrote:
> On 08/29/18 15:03, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
> > From the ports of course, via good old "svn up && make install".
> 
> This is what I meant by "build it yourself" :).  s/ports/pkg/ in my
> sentence above and it might make more sense.

Ah, I see.  No, I seldom use prebuilt binary packages, I'm oldskool and
prefer to build my software. :)

> Something is strange wrt. the differences in firmware sizes.  I can see
> it on my system as well, even though the uuencoded bits are the same.
> Might be that it's just some sort of "branding" since one is built at
> the same time as the kernel and one is not (different paths, debug info
> maybe?).  There is also an issue with firmware naming which I have to
> look into.  I still find it strange that it wasn't enough to rename the
> firmware blob, but maybe something else is going on.
> 
> What exact ATI/AMD graphics card are you using?

$ pciconv -lv:
...
vgapci0 at pci0:1:0:0:     class=0x030000 card=0x16181462 chip=0x954f1002
rev=0x00 hdr=0x00
    vendor     = 'Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI]'
    device     = 'RV710 [Radeon HD 4350/4550]'
    class      = display
    subclass   = VGA

> I might be able to dig something up from the pile behind me, otherwise
> I need help testing as well.

I'd gladly assist in testing whatever required.

./danfe