Re: Radeondrm firmware update on first boot

2014-03-04 Thread Frank Groeneveld
Hi Mark, On Wed, Mar 05, 2014 at 12:06:06AM +0100, Mark Kettenis wrote: > That's the intention. The idea is that if firmware is needed, but not > present, radeondrm(4) will detach and vga(4) will attach. > Unfortunately the codepaths are different for different hardware > generations and not all

Re: Radeondrm firmware update on first boot

2014-03-04 Thread Mark Kettenis
> I think the driver should somehow refrain from doing KMS on first boot, > or the machine should automatically reboot after fw_update to prevent > this from happening. That's the intention. The idea is that if firmware is needed, but not present, radeondrm(4) will detach and vga(4) will attach.

Radeondrm firmware update on first boot

2014-03-04 Thread Frank Groeneveld
First of all: props to all the people who are working to make 5.5 one of the best releases! It's amazing to boot into Gnome 3.10 with Radeon KMS with machdep.allowaperture=0 :) Back to my "problem": I've installed my desktop machine (dmesg attached) twice from different snapshots. The newest snaps