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Date:      Sat, 23 Feb 2019 15:55:57 +0300
From:      Greg V <greg@unrelenting.technology>
To:        Yoshihiro Ota <ota@j.email.ne.jp>
Cc:        Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>, "freebsd-arch@freebsd.org" <arch@freebsd.org>, FreeBSD X11 mailing list <freebsd-x11@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: DRM removal soon
Message-ID:  <1550926557.1795.0@unrelenting.technology>
In-Reply-To: <20190223003126.4aec5a01b77ec9bf9ea0992a@j.email.ne.jp>
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On Sat, Feb 23, 2019 at 8:31 AM, Yoshihiro Ota <ota@j.email.ne.jp> 
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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