Ars Technica article

[Alexey Dokuchaev]

On Mon, Apr 13, 2020 at 10:27:58AM +0000, Grzegorz Junka wrote:
> > Oh, I'm not blaming him at all.  And more to it, while Andrea Venturoli
> > is currently helps to debug xf86-video-ati-legacy issues, I'm not that
> > concerned about that driver, but rather that all other DRM ports except
> > legacy locking up my laptop upon "kldload radeonkms".  This isn't right;
> > it should be debugged and fixed, and only then drm-legacy-kmod port can
> > be removed.
> 
> For what's is worth, since I moved from 12.0 to 12.1 none of the new DRM
> ports worked for me. The only working configuration was kernel/world from
> CURRENT (13) and ports compiled at least on 12.1-RELEASE. Are you trying
> binary distributions or compiling on your own?

I'm always on -CURRENT and always compile from SVN with make build/install
world and kernel (same for ports, most often).  I need to pull up my data
points gathered over the past few weeks together, analyze it, and open PRs
when evidence is concrete enough.

./danfe