[Bug 247441] graphics/gpu-firmware-kmod and or graphics/drm-fbsd11.2-kmod crashing 11.2 to 11.4 with a Radeon HD 5770 card

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--- Comment #15 from Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe at FreeBSD.org> ---
(In reply to Warner Losh from comment #13)
> The graphics drivers are highly sensitive to many things most other drivers
> are not.
Could you elaborate a bit more on this?  When DRM bits were in the base,
FreeBSD had offered awesome graphics experience, despite that it was claimed
those bits were actually not maintained very well.  That was just 2-3 years
ago, then we started to deteriorate rapidly.  What had changed?  Why did we
allow it?  Why no one waived the red flag?

> There's enough churn, even in stable, in the parts of the kernel that matter
> the graphics team is unable to provide much, if any, support for non-released
> versions of FreeBSD (plus very recent current and stable branches).
This just means that there's bad communication and coordination of development
efforts between the graphics team and src team.  In other words, our process
sucks (that's how our users see it).

> Maybe there is something different, maybe not, in the 11.4-PRERELEASE, maybe
> it will work, maybe not
Well, these "maybenots" make us look pretty bad, that's for sure.  I keep
receiving emails about more users switching from FreeBSD to GNU/Linux precisely
because of lack of focus and uncertainty even among developers themselves.

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