Solved why upgrade for 14-RELEASE to 15-CURRENT?

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wolffnx

I hear you guys, what are the most important changes in 15-CURRENT in front of 14-RELEASE?
no production env, just my desktops , I'allways use RELEASE production
 
It runs pretty well, but you need to know how to operate it, e.g. to rebuild kernel modules from ports/packages. You also want to read /usr/src/UPDATING and as mentioned the -current mailing list.

My attitude is that (almost) all the changes in -current will be coming down on me anyway, so I can as well get an early warning.

Having said that, I am not aware of any groundbreaking changes in -current that are not in 14-stable already.
 
cracauer@ said:
It runs pretty well, but you need to know how to operate it, e.g. to rebuild kernel modules from ports/packages. You also want to read /usr/src/UPDATING and as mentioned the -current mailing list.

My attitude is that (almost) all the changes in -current will be coming down on me anyway, so I can as well get an early warning.

Having said that, I am not aware of any groundbreaking changes in -current that are not in 14-stable already.
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that is the answer that I looking for , "groundbreaking changes" , I'allways look for optimize my bsd box, build minimum kernel,world,small VM
already everyting works fast and stable, but allways can make more with FreeBSD
so, there is no reason to me for change to 15-CURRENT
 
SirDice said:
Sign up with the freebsd-current mailing list.


If you feel more adventurous, switch to 14-STABLE. Give that a go. It'll get you some experience building world, and gets you all the bug fixes and new features without any of the potential pitfalls -CURRENT might have.
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maybe give it a look to CURRENT,there is no risk for me, allways make a backup and only are my desktop machine, but like cracauer@ says , there is no significant changes
 
I'm using a VirtualBox VM with 15-CURRENT, just to see if I can compile my way to a KDE6 desktop with Wayland... If something breaks in there, that's OK, I just take notes for future reference. I started over a week ago, and the compilation is still going on. :p
 
Alain De Vos said:
Or you use a VM or you build world.
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yes, I'am playing with
/etc/src.conf and buildworld , I dint notice a big diference , strange..is more the little speedup
when I run a custom kernel that when make buildworld

not want to make offtopic..better to do another post
 
Is it possible to upgrade 14-RELEASE to 15-CURRENT? I have an install of 14-RELEASE with the current updates on a separate SSD from everything else, and it works/runs fine, but I can't get anything GUI loading up... i.e. no Xorg or Wayland servers work with my GPU (an AMD Radeon RX 7600 XT 16GB from Asrock... Steel Legend edition). Would an upgrade from 14-R to 15-C make any difference for me? I know the RX 7600 XT drivers are a part of the DRM-61-Kmod pkg, but when I try and install it on 14-R it doesn't compile and/or install right. Has an update to that pkg been released to work with 14-R? I just want to play around with FreeBSD on my good system here. I have stable Arch Linux (well "stable since it's rolling release) and Windows installs to fall back on should anything catastrophic happen. Thanks in advance.
 
Shiggitay said:
I know the RX 7600 XT drivers are a part of the DRM-61-Kmod pkg, but when I try and install it on 14-R it doesn't compile and/or install right.
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You can't install it on 14.0-RELEASE because it lacks certain kernel features it needs. Try 14.1-RELEASE first, BETA3 should be available now. 14.1 has the kernel support for graphics/drm-61-kmod.

www.freebsd.org

FreeBSD 14.1 Release Process

FreeBSD is an operating system used to power modern servers, desktops, and embedded platforms.
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Shiggitay said:
Has an update to that pkg been released to work with 14-R?
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It's not the graphics/drm-61-kmod that needs to be updated, it's the kernel. 14.0 lacks the required features.
 
Shiggitay said:
i.e. no Xorg or Wayland servers work with my GPU (an AMD Radeon RX 7600 XT 16GB from Asrock.. ... I know the RX 7600 XT drivers are a part of the DRM-61-Kmod pkg
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I mentioned that in other posts, but that GPU is way too new for FreeBSD. Even if you upgrade to cutting-edge, that would be pointless, because drm-kmod does not yet have the firmware for the Radeon 7000 RX series yet. This is where you want to look if you want to know if the GPU is even supported on FreeBSD at all: https://cgit.freebsd.org/ports/tree/graphics/gpu-firmware-amd-kmod/pkg-plist

The 61 -kmod package is only a metapackage, it still has to pull in firmware for the GPU from gpu-firmware-amd-kmod...
 
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