Eliminate early KMS usage in favor of proper systemd chainload

[ventureoo]

I’ve always considered early KMS as a workaround for issues with race conditions when loading between driver and display manager/graphics environment. Here is another approach, that allows us to solve this "right" in my opinion, as it simply ties graphics services (getty/display-manager) to wait for all graphic drivers. To do this, we ship generator that creates drm-module-load.target at runtime which injects dependencies for all GPU drivers of current hardware and a udev rule that activates it if module loading is successful. If load failed, that’s okay, we have JobTimeoutSec, which allows drm-module-load.target to fail but load the rest of the services that depend on it (as Wants= implies soft dependencies).

To avoid breaking the work plymouth, we should switch to using simple-drm (that is, specify UseSimpledrm=1 in /etc/plymouth/plymouthd.conf, I thought this should be done on the calamares side). This is what Fedora does and it seems normal for them, see: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/PlymouthUseSimpledrm

This will certainly require careful testing by other users, but from my testing, it works pretty well. The main advantage is the absence of bloated initramfs, which often becomes an obstacle for configurations with Btrfs snapshots and a separate /boot, as we now do when using limine-snapper-sync, which led us to decide to use ESP partition size 4 Gb by default, which I find excessive.

Fixes: CachyOS/cachyos-calamares#250 #262 CachyOS/distribution#529

[ventureoo]

Undrafted, cachyos-drm-awaiter was merged and it's ready for testing.

[mati865]

To avoid breaking the work plymouth, we should switch to using simple-drm (that is, specify UseSimpledrm=1 in /etc/plymouth/plymouthd.conf, I thought this should be done on the calamares side). This is what Fedora does and it seems normal for them, see: fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/PlymouthUseSimpledrm

According to Arch Wiki SimpleDRM is default, and indeed Plymouth still works after I removed kms hook and nvidia modules from mkinitcpio.
My initramfs+vmlinuz is 39 MiB total. Tested with nvidia-open-dkms 610.57.04 drivers.

EDIT: Obviously, I had installed cachyos-drm-awaiter.

[ventureoo]

According to Arch Wiki SimpleDRM is default, and indeed Plymouth still works after I removed kms hook and nvidia modules from mkinitcpio.

UseSimpledrm option is not enabled by default itself (https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/plymouth/plymouth/-/blob/26.134.222/src/main.c?ref_type=tags#L347-348), but yeah, if there's no any another DRM driver inside initramfs, simpledrm will be used anyway. The reason to use UseSimpledrm option is to stop plymouth waiting for another DRM drivers: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/plymouth/plymouth/-/blob/26.134.222/src/libply-splash-core/ply-device-manager.c#L349-358.

Anyway, thank you for testing!

[ventureoo]

Since cachyos-drm-awaiter with latest updates now can generate dependencies for any GPU drivers, not only for main vendors, there's no point in listining it in every profile, so this PR will remove only early kms usage from hooks.

[vnepogodin]

It would make more sense to install drm/gpu related package as part of chwd gpu profile install

Servers wouldnt need drm awaiter

[ventureoo]

It would make more sense to install drm/gpu related package as part of chwd gpu profile install

Servers wouldnt need drm awaiter

Okay, I returned it back to chwd.

[vnepogodin]

nvidia-dkms-580xx.prime missed

[ventureoo]

nvidia-dkms-580xx.prime missed

Indeed, done.

[vnepogodin]

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