DRM removal soon
Greg V
greg at unrelenting.technology
Sat Feb 23 12:57:05 UTC 2019
On Sat, Feb 23, 2019 at 8:31 AM, Yoshihiro Ota <ota at j.email.ne.jp>
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> How does this impact VMWare users?
> I couldn't find much of documents.
>
> I run few FreeBSD versions on MacBook VMWare.
>
> Do we have a different driver for VMWare or go by MacBook's?
>
> I looked at dmesg of another laptop and that reports "Radeon".
> However, I don't find any "drm" in FreeBSD VMWare dmesg at all.
> I'm not sure which driver FreeBSD has been picking up.
Hi, looks like you have not been using *any* GPU driver at all, just a
basic framebuffer (efifb or vga) and software rendering.
Only the new drm-kmod includes vmwgfx, which should bring you GPU
support :) https://twitter.com/johalun/status/1056549585106227201
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