FreeBSD xog on AMDGPU

[Grzegorz Junka]

On 04/08/2019 05:02, andrew glaeser wrote:
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> On Sat, 3 Aug 2019 15:50:25 +0000
> Grzegorz Junka <list1 at gjunka.com> wrote:
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>> For AMD Gpu drivers please have a look here:
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>> https://freebsddesktop.github.io/2018/12/08/drm-kmod-primer.html
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>> This is a work in progress but the information given there will work
>> with FreeBSD 12 & up.
>>
>> What's your aim? What are you trying to achieve? Is the aim to run
>> TrueOS? Or FreeBSD 13? Or the current version 12? Why have you started
>> with TrueOS?
>>
>> FreeBSD root on ZFS has been available for ages (9x if I recall correctly)
>>
>> GrzegorzJ
> Thanks a lot for the link, I think I've tried pretty much everything to remove
> that final entry from /boot/loader.conf, from boot-parameters to
> accessing /boot/ from live-system, this has been a complete failure so far.
>
> Nonetheless I am deeply in love already with True-OS, so I will probably just
> re-install, while yesterday I spent half the day on that, particularly on
> initial configurations and finding my way around, today it is probably going
> to be one or two hours only.
>
> As far as I see, True-OS is currently pretty much identical with
> FreeBSD-current(13), and I do want to stick with it, because it is supposed
> to be desktop-optimized, some specific True-OS packages are there.
>

Well, I am not sure about that. Apparently TrueOS split some time ago 
into desktop and server optimized versions:

https://itsfoss.com/project-trident-interview/

GrzegorzJ