GPU firmware naming and problems with loading

[Alexey Dokuchaev]

Hi there,

While trying to understand why anything other than `graphics/drm-legacy-kmod'
port locks my laptop hard on "kldload radeonkms", I've noticed the different
output during loading of the firmware:

With graphics/drm-legacy-kmod:

   info: [drm] Loading ARUBA Microcode
2x radeon/ARUBA_pfp.bin: could not load firmware image, error 2
   drmn0: Successfully loaded firmware image with name (mapped name):
   radeon/ARUBA_pfp.bin (radeon_ARUBA_pfp_bin)
2x radeon/ARUBA_me.bin: could not load firmware image, error 2
   drmn0: Successfully loaded firmware image with name (mapped name):
   radeon/ARUBA_me.bin (radeon_ARUBA_me_bin)
2x radeon/ARUBA_rlc.bin: could not load firmware image, error 2
   drmn0: Successfully loaded firmware image with name (mapped name):
   radeon/ARUBA_rlc.bin (radeon_ARUBA_rlc_bin)

While graphics/drm-fbsd11.2-kmod:

   info: [drm] Loading ARUBA Microcode
2x radeon/ARUBA_pfp.bin: could not load firmware image, error 2
2x radeon/ARUBA_me.bin: could not load firmware image, error 2
2x radeon/ARUBA_rlc.bin: could not load firmware image, error 2
   info: [drm] Internal thermal controller without fan control
   info: [drm] radeon: dpm initialized
2x radeon/TAHITI_uvd.bin: could not load firmware image, error 2
2x radeon/TAHITI_vce.bin: could not load firmware image, error 2

Looks as new DRM code tries to load `/boot/modules/radeon/ARUBA_pfp.bin.ko'
et al., does not find them, and locks up the system, while the legacy code
would try to replace the slash with underscore to generate "mapped name",
which works (since /boot/modules/radeon_ARUBA_pfp_bin.ko does exist).

Can we please decide on the firmware layout, fix this naming/search bug
and make it universal across all DRM ports, at the very least?  How does
this even works for other people? :-/

./danfe