Re: DRM removal soon

Greg V <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.architechture,gmane.os.freebsd.devel.x11
Message-ID <[email protected]>

On Sat, Feb 23, 2019 at 8:31 AM, Yoshihiro Ota <[email protected]> 
wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> How does this impact VMWare users?
> I couldn't find much of documents.
> 
> I run few FreeBSD versions on MacBook VMWare.
> 
> Do we have a different driver for VMWare or go by MacBook's?
> 
> I looked at dmesg of another laptop and that reports "Radeon".
> However, I don't find any "drm" in FreeBSD VMWare dmesg at all.
> I'm not sure which driver FreeBSD has been picking up.

Hi, looks like you have not been using *any* GPU driver at all, just a 
basic framebuffer (efifb or vga) and software rendering.

Only the new drm-kmod includes vmwgfx, which should bring you GPU 
support :) https://twitter.com/johalun/status/1056549585106227201


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