Bug#732692: loading radeonkms results in unusable screen
Hi,
On 24/12/13 12:28, Robert Millan wrote:
> RC3 is due out soon. Is there any objection to removal of radeonkms?
If we're not doing any automatic module loading yet, I don't think there
will be any functional change from doing this? Do we gain anything by
removing it or do you suggest it only in order to clean up?
> Is there a case for providing an incomplete version (i.e. without firmware)?
It has the capability to load firmware, though. So it potentially
allows for packaging just the microcode, just as firmware-linux-nonfree
does for Radeon KMS on Linux.
I seem to think the patch to the Xorg driver (#732514) is the riskiest
change, at which point radeon will stop working.
I hope I will have some time now to test this, and I think maybe even a
Wiki page is needed to describe the pieces that make KMS work and the
status of different chipsets.
Regards,
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Steven Chamberlain
steven@pyro.eu.org
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