re: kern/49362: drm2 GENERIC refresh leaves black areas Radeon HD 4550, ASRock Z77M, Intel i3-3225

[matthew green <mrg%eterna.com.au@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR kern/49362; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: matthew green <mrg%eterna.com.au@localhost>
To: Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost>
Cc: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Subject: re: kern/49362: drm2 GENERIC refresh leaves black areas Radeon HD 4550, ASRock Z77M, Intel i3-3225
Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2015 22:30:46 +1100

 Martin Husemann writes:
 > On Sun, Jan 11, 2015 at 05:29:23PM +1100, matthew green wrote:
 > > updating will mean that all cards *require* drmkms or are forced
 > > to use the vesa card... so it's pretty big hammer.
 > 
 > What would that mean for non x86?
 > Radeons are pretty popular both on sparc64 and macppc.
 > 
 > Last I asked it was "not time yet" to try getting drmkms work on sparc64,
 > need to start on that now?
 
 i have no idea what this means for non-x86.  do we use xf86-video-ati
 there?  all the user-mode switching is removed and it requires KMS.
 
 we might need to ship both drivers, but i really don't nkow.
 
 
 .mrg.