DRM removal soon

Yoshihiro Ota ota at j.email.ne.jp
Fri Mar 1 05:50:34 UTC 2019


Hi, all and Cy.

I trimmed most of old posts.

On Thu, 28 Feb 2019 11:22:52 -0800
Cy Schubert <Cy.Schubert at cschubert.com> wrote:
> 
> Yes. drm-legacy-kmod should be removed from ports sooner than later. drm-current-kind works
> perfectly on older gear like my 13 year old Pentium-M, which was repurposed as an i386 test
> platform years ago.

Don't worry.
You are still talking in the unit of years.
I still occasionally use a laptop from the last century. :)
Jokes aside, I have 2 questions.

I have a 12.0-RELEASE base system and 12.0 pkg configuration.
Looking back my operational log, pkg install was like this.

# pkg install drm-kmod
Updating FreeBSD repository catalogue...
FreeBSD repository is up to date.
All repositories are up to date.
The following 3 package(s) will be affected (of 0 checked):

New packages to be INSTALLED:
        drm-kmod: g20180930
        drm-legacy-kmod: g20181031_1
        gpu-firmware-kmod: g20180825

Question #1:
drm-current-kmod was mentioned in your reply.  Have I installed wrong kmod?


I do not setup X to come up as a part of boot process.  So, I login via console and may stay there or decide to startx depending on what I want to do.  I can see the driver switching and my kld_list="/boot/modules/radeonkms.ko" loads these modules as expected.

On the other hand, I still see the following in dmesg.

drmn0: =======================================================
drmn0: This code is obsolete abandonware. Install the graphics/drm-legacy-kmod p
kg
drmn0: =======================================================
drmn0: Deprecated code (to be removed in FreeBSD 13): drm2 drivers
drmn0: =======================================================
drmn0: This code is obsolete abandonware. Install the graphics/drm-legacy-kmod pkg
drmn0: =======================================================
drmn0: Deprecated code (to be removed in FreeBSD 13): drm2 drivers
drmn0: <Wrestler [Radeon HD 6320]> on vgapci0
info: [drm] RADEON_IS_PCIE
info: [drm] initializing kernel modesetting (PALM 0x1002:0x9806 0x144D:0xC589).
info: [drm] register mmio base: 0xFEB00000
info: [drm] register mmio size: 262144
info: [drm] radeon_atrm_get_bios: ===> Try ATRM...

kldstat -v reports this:

 5    1 0x1900d000   10c000 radeonkms.ko (/boot/modules/radeonkms.ko)
        Contains modules:
                 Id Name
                529 vgapci/radeonkms
                534 drmn/radeon_atom_hw_i2c
                531 radeon_iicbb/iicbb
                533 radeon_hw_i2c/iicbus
                530 drmn/radeon_iicbb
                532 drm/radeon_hw_i2c
 6    1 0x19119000    4e000 drm2.ko (/boot/kernel/drm2.ko)
        Contains modules:
                 Id Name
                525 drmn/drm_iic_dp_aux
                526 drmn

Question #2.
Am I loading the right driver set?

Regards,
Hiro


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