Just wondering if anyone managed to get amdgpu running on this machine or similar with Radeon Vega 8 (
AMD Ryzen 5 3500U with Radeon Vega Mobile Gfx). The only reference I found was here
https://www.mail-archive.com/freebsd-current@freebsd.org/msg179289.html but goes beyond my understanding. Not even now how to proceed with the step one "Built world and kernel from HEAD"
Thank you.
The person responding in that email is inferring he built a Highly Experimental Actively Developed (HEAD) daily source snapshot of FREEBSD-13.0-CURRENT kernel and base binaries and proceeded to reinstall it into a build development environment called Poudrier, this is done to experiment with potential upgrade paths from 12.x-RELEASE version of the os to the (far in the future, several years from now) upcoming 13.0-RELEASE OS.
Apropoo, I have the same laptop but cannot, no matter what I do, get any 12.x-stable release installer to boot into a functional state, the kernel simply panics and auto reboots or the system freezes. There is no known kernel flag magic I've been able to discover to mitigate this, only forum posts / emails about how the ACPI and memory mapping in 12.x (both 12.0 and 12.1) in relation to the Lenovo UEFI implementation simply doesn't work, and that the only thing that manages to boot into any sort of functional state is 13.0-CURRENT HEAD snapshot builds.
If you're unaware of this distinction, it implies you're running 12.x-stable
What kind of a black magick ritual did you need to perform to get the system installed? How many 40 year old female virgins do you need give as human sacrifice to make it work.
Also, the AMDGPU kernel module appears to be quite broken for the time being, the man page stimply states that using it will result in kernel panics from time to time. Hence it is probably advisable to stick non-accelorated vesafb for X11 for the time being...
Still, I'm going to attempt using AMDGPU kernel modules and appropriate Xorg drivers. But, I suspect I will roll back to the unaccelorated UEFI Framebuffer / vesafb setup if it's unstable.
