Bug 194664
| Summary: | [vt] radeonkms_load="YES" in loader.conf.local halts system, "Failed to load firmware!" | ||||||
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| Product: | Base System | Reporter: | crum.zach | ||||
| Component: | kern | Assignee: | freebsd-bugs (Nobody) <bugs> | ||||
| Status: | Closed Not A Bug | ||||||
| Severity: | Affects Only Me | CC: | crum.zach, dumbbell, tijl | ||||
| Priority: | --- | ||||||
| Version: | 10.1-STABLE | ||||||
| Hardware: | amd64 | ||||||
| OS: | Any | ||||||
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Xorg works fine as well. Both of these scenarios halt the system upon boot: kern.vty=vt radeonkms_load="YES" #kern.vty=vt radeonkms_load="YES" However, kern.vty=vt boots fine, and after signing in, I can kldload the driver without any issues. The firmware is in a separate kernel module so try adding the following to loader.conf: radeonkmsfw_CAYMAN_pfp_load="YES" still no luck. I noted /boot/modules only had virtualbox kernel modules in it, so I copied the entire /boot/kernel directory into it. Still had the same result. #vesa_load="YES" hw.pci.default_vgapci_unit="0" autoboot_delay="5" loader_logo="beastie" module_path="/boot/modules" kern.vty=vt #radeonkms_load="YES" #radeonkmsfw_CAYMAN_pfp_load="YES" I can still kldload the radeonkms driver after signing in. (In reply to crum.zach from comment #3) > still no luck. I noted /boot/modules only had virtualbox kernel modules in > it, so I copied the entire /boot/kernel directory into it. Still had the > same result. That should not be necessary. > #vesa_load="YES" > hw.pci.default_vgapci_unit="0" > autoboot_delay="5" > loader_logo="beastie" > module_path="/boot/modules" > kern.vty=vt > #radeonkms_load="YES" > #radeonkmsfw_CAYMAN_pfp_load="YES" There are more CAYMAN firmware modules. Maybe you need to load all of them: radeonkms_load="YES" radeonkmsfw_CAYMAN_mc_load="YES" radeonkmsfw_CAYMAN_me_load="YES" radeonkmsfw_CAYMAN_pfp_load="YES" radeonkmsfw_CAYMAN_rlc_load="YES" How is the boot processing using 'radeonkms_load="YES"' different from kldload after signing in? It seems to me that they should work the same. The problem with loading the modules from loader.conf is that the filesystem isn't mounted yet when the card is initialized. Therefore, radeonkms can't find any of the firmwares. You can find instructions on the wiki to configure loader.conf: https://wiki.freebsd.org/Graphics#Video_driver_loaded_at_boot_time Updated 10.1-BETA and 10.1-RC versioned bugs to 10.1-STABLE. I want to add more information: module dependencies between the driver and the firmwares are resolved during device initialization. That's why firmwares can't be loaded automatically by the loader. And when the device is initialized, /boot is not mounted yet. I understand this is inconvenient. Thank you, this makes complete sense. Should Documentation be made aware of the issue? Currently, the primary source of documentation regarding the graphics stack is the wiki (https://wiki.freebsd.org/Graphics), mainly because this area is moving fast. I'm going to expand a bit the paragraph about this particular problem. There are plans to update the Handbook section; I don't know what the status is. |
Created attachment 148741 [details] dmesg output from system When enabled, the radeon kms driver appears to halt the kernel. The only way to rescue the system is to use a different boot drive and remove the offending line from /boot/loader.conf.local This is the only part of the trace I can capture info: [drm] radeon_read_bios: ===> Try PCI Expansion ROM... info: [drm] radeon_read_bios: Map address: 0xffff800000c0000 (131072 bytes) info: [drm] ATOM BIOS: CAYMAN drmn0: info: VRAM: 2048M 0x0000000000000000 - 0x000000007FFFFFFF (2048M used) drmn0: info: GTT: 512M 0x0000000000000000 - 0x000000009FFFFFFF info: [drm] Detected VRAM RAM=2048M, BAR=256M info: [drm] RAM width 256bits DDR [TTM] Zone kernel: Available graphics memory: 8374848 kiB [TTM] Zone dma32: Available graphics memory: 2097152 kiB [TTM] Initializing pool allocator info: [drm] radeon: 2048M of VRAM memory ready info: [drm] radeon: 512M of GTT memory ready. info: [drm] Supports vblank timestamp caching Rev 1 (10.10.2010). info: [drm] Driver supports precise vblank timestamp query. info: [drm] radeon: irq initialized. info: [drm] GART: num cpu pages 131072, num gpu pages 131072 info: [drm] probinggen 2 caps for device 1022:9603 = 2/0 info: [drm] enabling PCIE gen 2 link speeds, disable with radeon.pcie_gen2=0 info: [drm] Loading CAYMn Microcode error: [drm:pid0:ni_init_microcode] *ERROR* ni_cp: Failed to load firmware "radeonkmsfw_CAYMAN_pfp" error: [drm:pid0:cayman_startup] *ERROR* Failed to load firmware! drmn0: error: disabling GPU acceleration drmn0: warning: 0xffffff800075f6800 unpin not necessary drmn0: warning: 0xffffff800075f6800 unpin not necessaary error: [drm:pid0:cayman_init] *ERROR* radeon: MC ucode required for NI+. drmn0: error: Fatal error during GPU init info: [drm] radeon: finished device. [TTM] Finalizing pool allocator