Wayland on FreeBSD

[Emmanuel Vadot]

On Thu, 23 Apr 2020 11:24:37 +0200
Frederic Chardon <chardon.frederic at gmail.com> wrote:

> Le jeu. 23 avr. 2020 à 00:35, Jan Beich <jbeich at freebsd.org> a écrit :
> >
> > Frederic Chardon <chardon.frederic at gmail.com> writes:
> >
> > > Le mer. 22 avr. 2020 à 16:51, Jan Beich <jbeich at freebsd.org> a écrit :
> > >
> > >>
> > >> Frederic Chardon <chardon.frederic at gmail.com> writes:
> > >>
> > >> > Le lun. 20 avr. 2020 à 23:06, Jan Beich <jbeich at freebsd.org> a écrit :
> > >> >
> > >> >>
> > >> >> Frederic Chardon <chardon.frederic at gmail.com> writes:
> > >> >>
> > >> >> >
> > >> >> > The trace shows usage of llvmpipe after the failed ioctl on
> > >> >> > /dev/dri/card0, so as I understand the lack of hardware acceleration
> > >> >> > concerns only Xwayland, whereas wayland itself is accelerated ?
> > >> >>
> > >> >> Yep. Check which ioctls fail then try to reproduce outside of Mesa or
> > >> >> hardcode the result. Overriding PCI ID via INTEL_DEVID_OVERRIDE is
> > >> >> unlikely to help e.g.,
> > >> >
> > >> > All below failure occurs only in xwayland, X11 and wayland succeed.
> > >> >
> > >> > The first failure is with I915_PARAM_CHIPSET_ID. When I hardcode the
> > >> > correct ID I get a failure with I915_PARAM_HAS_RELAXED_DATA. When I
> > >> > force the result to be true (as with X11 and Wayland), the ioctl
> > >> > DRM_I915_GEM_EXECBUFFER2_WR fails with errno EPERM.
> > >>
> > >> Thanks for investigating. Maybe either DRM_AUTH or DRM_RENDER_ALLOW fails.
> > >> Does setuid bit on Xwayland binary help?
> > > Yes, hardware acceleration works. eglinfo still complain about invalid
> > > 0xffffffff PCI ID though
> > >
> > >> Does disabling render node help
> > >> e.g., chmod 0000 /dev/dri/renderD128 ?
> > > No
> > >
> > > What helps however is to mount the different linux filesystems after
> > > i915kms is loaded.
> > > eg I added "late" keyword to fstab as below
> > > devfs   /compat/linux/dev     devfs     rw,late 0 0
> > > fdesc /compat/linux/dev/fd  fdescfs   rw,late,linrdlnk 0 0
> > > linproc /compat/linux/proc    linprocfs rw,late 0 0
> > > linsys  /compat/linux/sys     linsysfs  rw,late 0 0
> > >
> > > without the late keyword, acceleration works if devfs alone is
> > > mounted. any other fs (with or without devfs) makes Xwayland use
> > > software rendering.
> > > As with setuid Xwayland, eglinfo complains about invalid PCI ID.
> >
> > manu@ fixed major/minor usage upstream. Can you try the following patch?
> 
> No change. major are still different, minor doesn't have the 0x80 bit
> set, and hw accel is disabled if I mount linux pseudofs before kldload
> i915kms

 major/minor are irrelevent on FreeBSD, upstream code now don't care
about them and should properly detect the node type.
 I haven't followed the whole thread as it's a typical mailing list
thread that switched to troll and unreleated content. Can someone
explain what is the problem that you have please ?

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Emmanuel Vadot <manu at bidouilliste.com>