Re: port-i386/56860: viadrmums module fails to load after drm update

[Paul Goyette <paul%whooppee.com@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR port-i386/56860; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Paul Goyette <paul%whooppee.com@localhost>
To: Andrius V <vezhlys%gmail.com@localhost>
Cc: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Subject: Re: port-i386/56860: viadrmums module fails to load after drm update
Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2022 05:55:35 -0700 (PDT)

 On Fri, 3 Jun 2022, Andrius V wrote:
 
 > Hi,
 >
 > Currently my setup has drmkms as a built-in driver (since kernel
 > includes other drm drivers), the patch doesn't seem to have any effect
 > to viadrmums module. For testing purposes I built a kernel without any
 > drm drivers, however separate drmkms module is obsolete and not
 > included in the list of modules. If it is supposed to load with drm
 > module, it also fails to load:
 > kobj_checksyms, 1026: [drm]: linker error: global symbol `drm_ioctl' redefined
 > WARNING: module error: unable to load `drm' pushed by boot loader, error 8
 
 Yeah, as I discussed with riastradh@ on IRC, the drmkms module and
 related modules are unlikely to work as loadable modules without a
 significant amount of effort.
 
 
 
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