drm2 deprecation in base: problems with gpu-firmware-kmod port

[Niclas Zeising]

On 9/1/18 1:24 PM, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 01, 2018 at 12:18:44PM +0200, Niclas Zeising wrote:
>> On 08/29/18 15:03, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
>>>  From the ports of course, via good old "svn up && make install".
>>
>> This is what I meant by "build it yourself" :).  s/ports/pkg/ in my
>> sentence above and it might make more sense.
> 
> Ah, I see.  No, I seldom use prebuilt binary packages, I'm oldskool and
> prefer to build my software. :)
> 
>> Something is strange wrt. the differences in firmware sizes.  I can see
>> it on my system as well, even though the uuencoded bits are the same.
>> Might be that it's just some sort of "branding" since one is built at
>> the same time as the kernel and one is not (different paths, debug info
>> maybe?).  There is also an issue with firmware naming which I have to
>> look into.  I still find it strange that it wasn't enough to rename the
>> firmware blob, but maybe something else is going on.
>>
>> What exact ATI/AMD graphics card are you using?
> 
> $ pciconv -lv:
> ...
> vgapci0 at pci0:1:0:0:     class=0x030000 card=0x16181462 chip=0x954f1002
> rev=0x00 hdr=0x00
>      vendor     = 'Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI]'
>      device     = 'RV710 [Radeon HD 4350/4550]'
>      class      = display
>      subclass   = VGA
> 
>> I might be able to dig something up from the pile behind me, otherwise
>> I need help testing as well.
> 
> I'd gladly assist in testing whatever required.
> 

Hi!
Apologies for taking so long on this.  Can you try the attached patch 
that updates the drm-legacy-port, rebuild it and test if it works?
Thanks!
Regards
-- 
Niclas

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