Re: hang while updating pkg_rolling-replace libvdpau

2020-09-03 Thread David Shao
Examine recently posted kern/55641: Recent changes to random/entropy "pkgsrc devel brick" an Intel Ivy Bridge system, with workaround Try Ctrl-C after the hang. Is there at the bottom of the trace a call to a random number function? Do you have something like an Intel Ivy Bridge system? Are you

Two decisions NetBSD needs for the drmkms update to really impact userland

2018-08-28 Thread David Shao
There are two decisions NetBSD needs for the drmkms update to actually be useful for userland. Mesa's current requirements are quite modest for Linux kernel compatibility -- I think only something like 3.9. First, recall kern/51786 "mesa 13.0.2 libdrm 2.4.74 Radeon needs kernel support, new ioctl

amd64 DRMKMS Radeon HD 4550 firmware_open(radeondrmkms/radeon/RV710_pfp.bin) called too early

2014-07-22 Thread David Shao
Using latest NetBSD source updated through Module Name:src Date: Tue Jul 22 04:55:51 UTC 2014 Modified Files: src/sys/dev/sbus: tcx.c amd64 DRMKMS on a machine with a Sapphire Radeon HS 4550 fails to finish booting with: drm:initializing kernel modesetting (RV710 0x1002:0x

Should drm2 be based on Linux kernel 3.14 since it is LTS?

2014-07-16 Thread David Shao
Great thanks should be given to Taylor R Campbell for the work updating drm2 to Linux kernel 3.15. Perhaps too much has been done in that direction, but is it possible that Linux kernel 3.14 should be considered as the baseline since it is LTS, which to my understanding means updates for 2 years i