Re: priority of paths to kernel modules?

From: Niclas Zeising <zeising_at_freebsd.org>
Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2018 00:20:26 +0200
On 08/24/18 17:20, Warner Losh wrote:
>  This would allow the graphics port to have a rc script that sets
> this up so when X11 goes to automatically load the module, the right one
> gets loaded.
> 

I just want to point out that X11 doesn't load the graphics kernel 
driver by default when using the drm-*-kmod ports, and I'm not sure the 
hack to have the intel ddx (xf86-video-intel) load the drm2 driver is 
still around.

It doesn't really matter though, since upstream is moving away from 
having X load the driver, and I'd like us to follow suit by using 
devmatch (this is one of the reasons we wanted to get rid of the base 
drivers, as I've stated before).  X can't always know which driver to 
load (when using modesetting for instance), and in my opinion, it should 
be the kernel/loader that decides which drivers to load.

Regards
-- 
Niclas Zeising
Received on Fri Aug 24 2018 - 20:20:29 UTC

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