re: Radeondrm on R7 250 w 3840x2160

[matthew green <mrg%eterna.com.au@localhost>]

Wolfgang Solfrank writes:
> Hi,
> 
> > So now things work more or less as expected, except that I have
> > to boot several times to get to see something on the screen.
> 
> I finally found some round tuits to look into this.
> 
> The problem is that the kernel panics after starting to initialize
> the radeon drmkms machinery, but before it finishes.
> 
> The radeon configuration attach code is delayed until after root is
> mounted in order to be able to load the firmware.  Right after it
> starts, some other thread tries to open the console, however,
> radeondrmkms didn't yet initialize the that, and so it panics
> with "cnopen: no console device".  As a result, the initialization
> of radeondrmkms is also aborted, and thus I don't see anything.

ah - do you have separate / and /usr?  copy the files
in /usr/libdata/firmware/radeon into /libdata...

(i guess we should just do this more globally.)


.mrg.