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

[Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost>]

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From: Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost>
To: matthew green <mrg%eterna.com.au@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 11:51:08 +0100

 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?
 
 Martin