Re: Changes in drm ports

On Tue, 3 May 2022 09:22:14 -0400
Jung-uk Kim <jkim@FreeBSD.org> wrote:

> On 22. 5. 3., Masachika ISHIZUKA wrote:
> >>   I've reworked the drm ports and the gpu-firmware ports, here is what
> >> changed :
> >>
> >    [snip]
> >>
> >>   For the gpu firmwares it's now in multiple packages.
> > 
> >    I'm using radeonkms on DELL studio 15 (very old machine).
> >    Although it works well on drm-current-kmod/drm-devel-kmod with
> > gpu-firmware-kmod, it can't work on drm-54-kmod/drm-510-kmod with
> > gpu-firmware-radeon-kmod. It froze after showing 'Mounting filesystems'.
> >    I'm using aio boot(cameleon UEFI boot loader) because this machine
> > is too old and uefi boot is not supported by bios, crash dump was
> > destroyed on next boot by cameleon and so I cannot save crash dump.
> > 
> > [OK]
> > drm-current-kmod-5.4.144.g20220223 or drm-devel-kmod-5.7.19.g20220223
> > gpu-firmware-kmod-g20210330
> >    
> > [NG]
> > drm-54-kmod-5.4.144 or drm-510-kmod-5.10.0
> > gpu-firmware-radeon-kmod-aruba-20211014
> > 
> > P.S. drm-(54|510)-kmod work well on XPS12/Vostro 3267 with i915kms.
> 
> gpu-firmware-radeon-kmod-aruba-20211014
>                           ^^^^^
> 
> "Aruba" is the default firmware and probably that's not what you want. 
> You need to find your own chipset and build correct flavor(s) for you.
> 
> Do "grep 'could not load firmware image' /var/log/messages".  For 
> example, you will see something like this:
> 
> May  2 21:48:35 xxxxxx kernel: drmn0: could not load firmware image 
> 'radeon/TAHITI_uvd.bin'
> May  2 21:48:35 xxxxxx kernel: drmn0: could not load firmware image 
> 'radeon/TAHITI_vce.bin'
> 
> This means you need need "tahiti" firmware and you will have to build 
> and install it.  Note you may need multiple flavors.  For example, I had 
> to build two flavors for the above GPU, i.e., aruba and tahiti.
> 
> May  3 08:46:38 xxxxxx kernel: drmn0: successfully loaded firmware image 
> 'radeon/ARUBA_pfp.bin'
> May  3 08:46:38 xxxxxx kernel: drmn0: successfully loaded firmware image 
> 'radeon/ARUBA_me.bin'
> May  3 08:46:38 xxxxxx kernel: drmn0: successfully loaded firmware image 
> 'radeon/ARUBA_rlc.bin'
> May  3 08:46:38 xxxxxx kernel: drmn0: successfully loaded firmware image 
> 'radeon/TAHITI_uvd.bin'
> May  3 08:46:38 xxxxxx kernel: drmn0: successfully loaded firmware image 
> 'radeon/TAHITI_vce.bin'
> 
> Jung-uk Kim
> 

 Not much to say beyond what jkim@ said.
 It's a known fact that some AMD SoC uses multiple generation firmware
(might be the case for PCI-E card not sure).
 Again if you don't know what you need just use the metaport that
install everything :)

-- 
Emmanuel Vadot <manu@bidouilliste.com> <manu@freebsd.org>