From nobody Mon Dec 05 18:06:40 2022 X-Original-To: dev-commits-ports-main@mlmmj.nyi.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mlmmj.nyi.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4NQs1x3H57z4kJf5; Mon, 5 Dec 2022 18:06:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from manu@bidouilliste.com) Received: from mx.blih.net (mx.blih.net [212.83.155.74]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits) server-digest SHA256 client-signature RSA-PSS (2048 bits) client-digest SHA256) (Client CN "mx.blih.net", Issuer "R3" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4NQs1w5dKVz4K8K; Mon, 5 Dec 2022 18:06:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from manu@bidouilliste.com) Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org; none DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=bidouilliste.com; s=mx; t=1670263602; h=from:from:reply-to:subject:subject:date:date:message-id:message-id: to:to:cc:cc:mime-version:mime-version:content-type:content-type: content-transfer-encoding:content-transfer-encoding: in-reply-to:in-reply-to:references:references; bh=utd1oUukZMfT0mp8/IKShGN3Bs/bvISOASOpBKP9s/Y=; b=b1tgiPbAHYmLtlSKLSb3FgK2wGcQ/wDDfrkITJY1h0quZ3X1bzvsa++OyANWmFYsgSnWXV DEGKQr3pUAn4LHOXS38CTpqTBaRevvqjGoD9AVjACw9ZIqGKtafOcXosXncpFCFdEHXLol Dn2e5eQWKPoYZ0yNks4RFo+ufiP5Do8= Received: from amy.home.blih.net (lfbn-lyo-1-2174-135.w90-66.abo.wanadoo.fr [90.66.97.135]) by mx.blih.net (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTPSA id 3388754f (TLSv1.3:TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256:NO); Mon, 5 Dec 2022 18:06:42 +0000 (UTC) Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2022 19:06:40 +0100 From: Emmanuel Vadot To: Dmitry Marakasov Cc: ports-committers@freebsd.org, dev-commits-ports-all@freebsd.org, dev-commits-ports-main@freebsd.org Subject: Re: git: 3f78a234e458 - main - graphics/gpu-firmware-kmod: optionize firmware vendors Message-Id: <20221205190640.7fccd5ecc7acbb331274abcb@bidouilliste.com> In-Reply-To: References: <202211291718.2ATHISXL015063@gitrepo.freebsd.org> <20221130111151.bbdc3e3b221207cb541daccd@bidouilliste.com> <20221205151109.e86a24dd8a15bb2ae5d55756@bidouilliste.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.7.0 (GTK+ 2.24.33; amd64-portbld-freebsd14.0) List-Id: Commits to the main branch of the FreeBSD ports repository List-Archive: https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/dev-commits-ports-main List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: Sender: owner-dev-commits-ports-main@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: dev-commits-ports-main@freebsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 4NQs1w5dKVz4K8K X-Spamd-Bar: ---- X-Spamd-Result: default: False [-4.00 / 15.00]; REPLY(-4.00)[]; ASN(0.00)[asn:12876, ipnet:212.83.128.0/19, country:FR] X-Rspamd-Pre-Result: action=no action; module=replies; Message is reply to one we originated X-ThisMailContainsUnwantedMimeParts: N On Mon, 5 Dec 2022 20:49:51 +0300 Dmitry Marakasov wrote: > * Emmanuel Vadot (manu@bidouilliste.com) wrote: > > > > This is not true because drm-kmod unconditionally pulls > > > gpu-firmware-kmod which unconditionally pulls all the firmwares. > > > > drm-kmod meta-port is made for two reasons : > > - Users don't know what hardware they have so a simple pkg install > > drm-kmod will install everything. > > - Downstream distribution that wants to include everything a user can > > have. > > > > If you know what hardware you have it's better to directly install > > drm-510-kmod and gpu-firmware--kmod- packages. > > I've just realized that drm-kmod is a metaport too and I can just > drop both metaports. So the change committed does no longer make > any use for me, may be as well useless in general. Please revert then. Cheers, > > > > It's a bit unlikely that one user will need only all > > > > the radeon/amd/intel firmwares. > > > > > > Well in fact there should be an option for each individual firmware, > > > but I was lazy. > > > > No there shouldn't be an option for each firmware, each firmware is a > > separate flavor of the main vendor port and this result in a dedicated > > package for one GPU. (There is one cavehat for AMD, see below). > > > > > Another valid case is that I have no idea which specific > > > intel firmware I need, I just don't want nvidia/amd garbage. > > > > Yes this is one problem, I've pondered writing a fwget script to put in > > base that will solve this issue, will probably do it one day. > > For intel it's kinda easy, just install drm-510-kmod, kldload i915kms > > and look in dmesg what firmware the driver says it couldn't load. DRM > > will work for intel without firmware, you just can't suspend/resume. > > For AMD depending on the GPUs sometimes it will work without a > > firmware, sometime it will not, meaning that you will lose the screen > > and will need to use serial/ssh (unless it bricks the machine but if > > that does it this is a bug that should be solved). Some generations of > > AMD gpu needs two firmware packages, this is because AMD reuse some IP > > (most of the time it's the VCN, the unit for video decoding/encoding) > > that is re-used. > > -- > Dmitry Marakasov . > amdmi3@amdmi3.ru ..: https://github.com/AMDmi3 https://amdmi3.ru/ > -- Emmanuel Vadot