Re: kern/54976: radeon framebuffer fails initialization in NetBSD-9

[Roy Bixler <rcbixler%nyx.net@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR kern/54976; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Roy Bixler <rcbixler%nyx.net@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Cc: mrg%netbsd.org@localhost, gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost, netbsd-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Subject: Re: kern/54976: radeon framebuffer fails initialization in NetBSD-9
Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2020 18:25:59 -0700

 On Fri, Feb 21, 2020 at 12:15:02AM +0000, matthew green wrote:
 >  interesting.  we have a weird problem to deal with then,
 >  and i'm not sure of the solution.  (it's related to having
 >  two files with the same case-insensitive name.)
 >  
 >  try installing this file, without the patch:
 >  
 >     https://www.netbsd.org/~mrg/kaveri_mec2.bin
 >  
 >  which is the expected file.  you can find *all* these files
 >  in the linux-firmware package from kernel.org, if there are
 >  other files that are missing..
 
 I tried that one, but I still got the "mixing old and new" message.  I
 tried also downloading the firmware from kernel.org and I replaced the
 entire "radeon" directory.  This boots with the original kernel.
 
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