[PATCH xf86-video-amdgpu 04/19] Remove drmCheckModesettingSupported and kernel module loading

[Michel Dänzer]

On 2018-04-04 04:29 PM, Emil Velikov wrote:
> From: Emil Velikov <emil.velikov at collabora.com>
> 
> The former of these is a UMS artefact which gives incorrect and
> misleading promise whether "KMS" is supported. Not to mention that
> AMDGPU is a only KMS driver.
> 
> In a similar fashion xf86LoadKernelModule() is a relic of the times,
> where platforms had no scheme of detecting and loading the appropriate
> kernel module.
> 
> Cc: Robert Millan <rmh at freebsd.org>
> Signed-off-by: Emil Velikov <emil.velikov at collabora.com>
> ---
> Robert, off the top of my head this should work with FreeBSD. Admittedly
> I'm not an expert on the platform. Please give it a test.

I want to get confirmation from Robert that this will work on FreeBSD
now, since he explicitly restored the kernel module loading code in
https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-video-ati/commit/?id=bfbff3b246db509c820df17b8fcf5899882ffcfa
.


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