On 08/25, Niclas Zeising wrote:
On 08/24/18 17:20, Warner Losh wrote:
This would allow the graphics port to have a rc script that sets
this up so when X11 goes to automatically load the module, the right one
gets loaded.
I just want to point out that X11 doesn't load the graphics kernel
driver by default when using the drm-*-kmod ports, and I'm not sure
the hack to have the intel ddx (xf86-video-intel) load the drm2 driver
is still around.
It doesn't really matter though, since upstream is moving away from
having X load the driver, and I'd like us to follow suit by using
devmatch (this is one of the reasons we wanted to get rid of the base
drivers, as I've stated before). X can't always know which driver to
load (when using modesetting for instance), and in my opinion, it
should be the kernel/loader that decides which drivers to load.
Yes, of course X shouldn't load the driver - also because:
- X is not the only display server people use (I use Weston)
- the console (vt) should also run with the graphics driver! (e.g. efifb
currently conflicts with radeon/amdgpu so you have to turn efifb off
to get anything working on EFI + Radeon, also many ARM boards do not
have any graphics support in U-Boot or whatever firmware)
I'm surprised to hear anyone was relying on the X server to load the
kernel module. I *always* used kld_list.
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