drm-510-kmod and firmware

Because gpu-firmware-kmod is a metaport as well, depending on all available firmwares.

The recommended package to install is drm-kmod which will pull in everything (picking the recommended specific driver package for your FreeBSD version). If you choose a specific package directly instead (e.g. drm-510-kmod), you're already taking the manual route and get the chance to only install the firmware packages (most of the time just one) you actually need.

If you don't care about that, the real question is, why don't you just install drm-kmod and be done?
 
I could do this ok.. but drm-510 corresponds to newer linux modules, if i understand right.
 
geos said:
I could do this ok.. but drm-510 corresponds to newer linux modules, if i understand right.
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drm-510-kmod is what drm-kmod currently picks on FreeBSD 13.1.

edit: IMHO, there are two reasons NOT to install drm-kmod
  • You want to select which firmware packages to install (instead of all of them, see above).
  • Your hardware is not supported by the driver picked by it and there's already a newer (probably experimental) version available in ports/packages.
 
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