re: What to do with base X11 for netbsd-9 ?

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

Lars Reichardt writes:
> 
> > matthew green <mrg%eterna.com.au@localhost> hat am 4. Juni 2019 um 07:19 geschrieben:
> > 
> > 
> > unfortunately, you need the as-yet non-functional amdgpu driver
> > i believe:
> > 
> > [  1594.209] (--) RADEON(0): Chipset: "OLAND" (ChipID = 0x6613)
> > 
> > means a GCN v1.  radeon supports this minimally, but the GL does
> > not.
> > 
> > 
> > .mrg.
> 
> afaik those GCN v1 chips are supported by radeon and have experimental
> support via amdgpu.
> 
> It fails with glamor xorg disabled llvmpipe, some quick search hint in
> the direction of mesa build options.
> 
> The same hardware works under Linux with both drivers accelerated.
> 
> The kernel driver loads the OLAND_mc2.bin firmware but fails to load
> TAHITI_vce.bin (I guess it's for video decoding) which is missing from
> the filesystem maybe that's causing some hickup.

ah yes - i forget how the overlaps between radeon and amdgpu
are and this one should be (only) in radeon as 'radeonsi'.

can you try installing TAHITI_vce.bin and seeing what happens?
it seems unlikely to be the problem.

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git/tree/radeon

if this doesn't help, we'll have to see what is up in Mesa.


.mrg.