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TLDR: relevant kernel configs are CONFIG_SYSFB_SIMPLEFB (only on x86?),
CONFIG_DRM_SIMPLEDRM, at the same time it's necessary to disable
CONFIG_FB_EFI and CONFIG_FB_SIMPLE
Hi,
I run Guix System, after upgrading from 1.4 to snapshot gdm refuses to
start even if I disable wayland in its config, it seems to require
kernel drm driver, unfortunately amdgpu absolutely requires proprietary
firmware, so for such situations there is simpledrm.
I tried building custom kernel myself, but build gets killed by OOM, it
appears 8 GB RAM is nowadays very little, I also tried disabling
building wlan, amdgpu, radeon, xe and i915 as they don't work with my
laptop anyway, kernel builds successfully, but then linux-modules
package throws error complaining that it cannot find USB drivers
(what???).
/etc/config.scm:
...
(define %linux-libre-simpledrm-config (append
`(("CONFIG_DRM_SIMPLEDRM" . m)
("CONFIG_SYSFB_SIMPLEFB" .m)
;; ("CONFIG_DRM_AMDGPU" . #f)
;; ("CONFIG_DRM_RADEON" . #f)
;; ("CONFIG_DRM_XE" . #f)
;; ("CONFIG_DRM_I915" . #f)
;; ("CONFIG_WLAN" . #f)
("CONFIG_FB_EFI" . #f)
("CONFIG_FB_SIMPLE" . #f))
((@@ (gnu packages linux) default-extra-linux-options) "6.11")))
(define linux-libre-simpledrm
((@@ (gnu packages linux) make-linux-libre*)
(@@ (gnu packages linux) linux-libre-version)
(@@ (gnu packages linux) linux-libre-gnu-revision)
(@@ (gnu packages linux) linux-libre-source)
'("x86_64-linux")
#:extra-version "simpledrm"
#:extra-options %linux-libre-simpledrm-config))
(operating-system
(kernel linux-libre-simpledrm)
...