Re: i386 vs radeondrmkms problem - isa attachments suck

[Taylor R Campbell <campbell+netbsd-tech-kern%mumble.net@localhost>]

   Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2015 11:36:18 +0100
   From: Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost>

   The need for loaded firmware from the filesystem at console attach time
   sounds like a seriously bad idea to me.

Agree.  But that's not the only issue mrg@ mentioned -- even if radeon
actually attaches earlier, i386 will have already mapped the vga
registers, causing radeon to fail.

   If the radeondrmkmsfs driver would provide plain old text console, and only
   after loading the firmware would gain the ability to switch the fb into X
   mode, everything else would become a lot simpler, wouldn't it?

Absolutely.  Problem: the upstream code doesn't do this, and making it
do this is not trivial.