On Fri, 2 May 2025, Andrew Randrianasulu wrote:
> In NetBSD 10.1/amd64 it does not show up in glxinfo output, and manually doing
>
> modload amdgpu leaves no traces in dmesg
>
No, that doesn't work. You have to either,
a) load all the reqd. kernel modules in /boot.cfg, or,
b) compile the driver into the kernel
for the driver to "take".
For a) see the "load" commands in:
https://gnats.netbsd.org/57207
Ah, thanks!
I copy/pasted this line
menu=Boot with amdgpu and voluminous debugging spew:rndseed /var/db/entropy-file;load amdgpu;load drmkms;load drmkms_linux;load drmkms_pci;load drmkms_sched;load drmkms_ttm;load sysmon;load sysmon_power;boot -v -x
into my boot.cfg from Slackware and we will see if it works on next reboot (not sure when exactly)
Yea, I was just surprized module loading not worked. I think Linux can "kick away" firmware/vga display buffer on load, but I guess NetBSD still can't? Or may be something else prevent runtime take-over by gpu driver module after system boot?