X11 + i915kms

[Jan Beich]

Hans Petter Selasky <hps at selasky.org> writes:

> On 2019-12-27 12:12, Jan Beich wrote:
>
>> Hans Petter Selasky <hps at selasky.org> writes:
>> 
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Just did a fresh install of X11 and stuff. I noticed the
>>> xf86-video-intel is very sluggish unless SNA acceleration mode is
>>> selected. Do you know anything about this? Maybe make it the default?
>>> Or should I have used another driver?
>> FreeBSD disabled SNA by default for compatibility with
>> pre-SandyBridge
>> on drm-legacy-kmod (previously, in-base drm2), see bug 214593.
>> SNA is also unstable due to I915_USERPTR_UNSYNCHRONIZED, so you may
>> need the patch in bug 236003.
>
> Does this fix the issue?
> https://github.com/FreeBSDDesktop/kms-drm/pull/205

Yes but it needs to be applied to drm-v4.11 and drm-v4.16 as well.
drm-v4.9 works fine as is. I've originally reported the issue
in https://github.com/FreeBSDDesktop/kms-drm/issues/32.

However, the way you've handled LinuxKPI changes won't help on already
released FreeBSD versions e.g.,

graphics/drm-fbsd12.0-kmod on FreeBSD 12.1:
  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_userptr.c:514:7: error: implicit declaration of function 'mmget_not_zero' is invalid in C99 [-Werror,-Wimplicit-function-declaration]
                  if (mmget_not_zero(mm)) {
                      ^
  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_userptr.c:514:7: error: this function declaration is not a prototype [-Werror,-Wstrict-prototypes]

graphics/drm-fbsd11.2-kmod on FreeBSD 11.3:
  i915_gem_userptr.c:511:7: error: implicit declaration of function 'mmget_not_zero' is invalid in C99 [-Werror,-Wimplicit-function-declaration]
                  if (mmget_not_zero(mm)) {
                      ^
  i915_gem_userptr.c:511:7: error: this function declaration is not a prototype [-Werror,-Wstrict-prototypes]