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I don't think it's official but there are 14.3 images on ftp.freebsd.org and one can upgrade using freebsd-update upgrade -r 14.3-RELEASE. The only thing I ran into was that one workstation, with an Nvidia card, needed drm-kmod reinstalled. I used ports, but it may not have been necessary, as pkg info -D drm-61-kmod said that the package was built for FreeBSD-14.3.
As I mentioned in another thread, my Beelink with an AX200 showed wireless speeds matching Linux but on a laptop with AC 9x6x already running 14.3-BETA3 I don't expect a difference (haven't upgraded that one yet)

UPDATE: The laptop, as expected, showed no difference in wireless speed.
 
scottro said:
I don't think it's official but there are 14.3 images
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The release announcement will is scheduled for the 10th of June, 2025.
Currently, images are being distributed to vendors.

scottro said:
The only thing I ran into was that one workstation, with an Nvidia card, needed drm-kmod reinstalled. I used ports, but it may not have been necessary, as pkg info -D drm-61-kmod said that the package was built for FreeBSD-14.3.
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Kernel modules are now supplied by a separate repository.

scottro said:
my Beelink with an AX200 showed wireless speeds matching Linux but on a laptop
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My AX201 is doing a happy 300 Mbps :)
 
Upgrade my T460. SDDM screaming that it couldn’t start display. Didn’t have time to debug. Reverted to 14.2.

Maybe I needed to reinstall drm-kmod?
 
Yes, that's usually the case, whether you have amd or Nvidia (or Intel, I guess, but no experience). You *might* need to use the port. I didn't try with the package, as in my experience, it's always been a matter of redoing the port, but as 14.3 is brand new, it's possible the package will be enough.
 
cyric said:
Geezer said:
Which is??
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Regarding the mailinglists messages with respect to the 'kmods' repository: in absence of clear information to the contrary, for -RELEASE versions, the use of ${VERSION_MINOR} still seems the most robust way of declaring the use of the 'kmods' repository:
  • url: pkg+https://pkg.freebsd.org/${ABI}/kmods_latest_${VERSION_MINOR}, for the latest package repositories
  • url: pkg+https://pkg.freebsd.org/${ABI}/kmods_quarterly_${VERSION_MINOR}, for the quarterly package repositories

See also for example usr.sbin/pkg/FreeBSD.conf.quarterly - releng/14.3 When you have the source files installed, you probably will also find this use in your local /usr/src/usr.sbin/pkg/FreeBSD.conf.quarterly

Forum ref: Possible solution to the drm-kmod kernel mismatch after upgrade from Bapt - message #66 (preceding) and following.
 
Nice! I just updated my laptop and the wifi speeds are super. Good stuff! I did have an Xorg error but I just re-installed drm-515-kmod and it's working just fine. Woah! Full bars on networkmgr. Very cool.
 

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Installed on an old bare metal machine with nividia-card.
No problem so far.
Used: https://github.com/Emrion/bin-upgrade

Advices:
- Create a Boot environment as point of return (yes, I know freebsd-update create two BE by default, but I disabled that).
- Disable loading of drivers like drm-xxx-kmod; in fact, all third-party drivers.
- Disable the automatic starting of all means that launch xorg or wayland (sddm, slim...).
- Upgrade kernel, reboot, upgrade userland.
- pkg upgrade the drivers or compile them.
- Re-enable all automatic loadings.
- Update your bootcodes / loaders.
- Reboot.
 
jbo@ said:
My AX201 is doing a happy 300 Mbps :)
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I cannot seem to be able to get more than 100Mbps. Moreover, on FreeBSD I can connect only to my 2.4GHz network.

My device is:

Code: 
iwlwifi0@pci0:1:0:0:    class=0x028000 rev=0x1a hdr=0x00 vendor=0x8086 device=0x2725 subvendor=0x8086 subdevice=0x0024
    vendor     = 'Intel Corporation'
    device     = 'Wi-Fi 6E(802.11ax) AX210/AX1675* 2x2 [Typhoon Peak]'
    class      = network
 
jbo@ said:
Can you check your sysctl property compat.linuxkpi.iwlwifi_disable_11ac?
See iwlwifi(4).

Also make sure the latest firmware is loaded using fwget(8).
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All looks correct to me:


[19:11][fmc000@tu45b-freebsd ~] $ doas fwget
Needed firmware packages: 'gpu-firmware-intel-kmod-tigerlake wifi-firmware-iwlwifi-kmod-ax210'
The most recent versions of packages are already installed
[19:11][fmc000@tu45b-freebsd ~] $ sysctl compat.linuxkpi.iwlwifi_disable_11ac
compat.linuxkpi.iwlwifi_disable_11ac: 0
[19:11][fmc000@tu45b-freebsd ~] $ sysctl compat.linuxkpi.iwlwifi_11n_disable
compat.linuxkpi.iwlwifi_11n_disable: 0
[19:11][fmc000@tu45b-freebsd ~] $
 
Tried to upgrade a virtualBox VM under Windows: failed.
At reboot, the screen is bugged, duplicated in about 4 times.

The kmod repo doesn't have virtualbox-ose-additions.
Recompiled virtualbox-ose-additions: same result at reboot.

Some ideas before I fill a PR?

Note: at some point, pkg doesn't work if the kmod repo is enabled. It's not the first time I see that. It's when I issue: make install-missing-packages.

Edit: today, it works. Such a thing need a special night magic. 👻
Maybe, it's the fact to reboot and not poweroff and start the VM, I don't know. It's equally not the first time I see that.

Next victim: my home server, but I ain't in hurry. I will see that the next weekend.
 
Emrion said:
Installed on an old bare metal machine with nividia-card.
No problem so far.
Used: https://github.com/Emrion/bin-upgrade

Advices:
- Create a Boot environment as point of return (yes, I know freebsd-update create two BE by default, but I disabled that).
- Disable loading of drivers like drm-xxx-kmod; in fact, all third-party drivers.
- Disable the automatic starting of all means that launch xorg or wayland (sddm, slim...).
- Upgrade kernel, reboot, upgrade userland.
- pkg upgrade the drivers or compile them.
- Re-enable all automatic loadings.
- Update your bootcodes / loaders.
- Reboot.
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Your script seems logical to me, thank you, Emrion. And why is not this automatic loading delay included in freebsd-update?
 
I'm not sure to understand what you mean by "automatic loading delay". If you meant that freebsd-update should deactivate third-party kernel modules loading, I will answer that it's complicated to impossible for a program to know which ones for a given configuration. That's why you have to specify the files and the lines to comment out with my script.

As I state in the corresponding README, this script just helps to not forget something in the upgrade process.
 
Two of my Radeon systems, RX 6400 and RX 560 DE, didn't like the update. They just don't want to work properly. My RX 5700 XT system is working fine though. My Nvidia systems are working fine, GTX 1070 and RTX 4060. And my intel systems are doing great with drm-515-kmod.

EDIT: I tried a fresh install on 6400 system and it's just all messed up. The 61-kmod is unable to sync with the GPU. And 515-kmod results in a reboot loop. The same with the RX 560 DE. Bummer.

EDIT 2: 14.3-RELEASE working great on R1 Alienware Steam Machine with Nvidia GTX 860M.

EDIT 3:

Loading RX 6400 worked after installing drm-61-kmod with:

pkg install drm-61-kmod gpu-firmware-amd-kmod-beige-goby

For some reason the system was not detecting the card properly.

EDIT 4: Loading RX 560 DE worked after:

pkg install drm-61-kmod gpu-firmware-amd-kmod-polaris12

I also reinstalled for the RX 5700 XT with:

pkg install drm-61-kmod gpu-firmware-amd-kmod-navi10

The RX 5700 XT was locking up the system with accelerated graphics applications.
 
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fmc000 said:
All looks correct to me:


[19:11][fmc000@tu45b-freebsd ~] $ doas fwget
Needed firmware packages: 'gpu-firmware-intel-kmod-tigerlake wifi-firmware-iwlwifi-kmod-ax210'
The most recent versions of packages are already installed
[19:11][fmc000@tu45b-freebsd ~] $ sysctl compat.linuxkpi.iwlwifi_disable_11ac
compat.linuxkpi.iwlwifi_disable_11ac: 0
[19:11][fmc000@tu45b-freebsd ~] $ sysctl compat.linuxkpi.iwlwifi_11n_disable
compat.linuxkpi.iwlwifi_11n_disable: 0
[19:11][fmc000@tu45b-freebsd ~] $
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PR 287393
 
hello all:
i have 10TB zfs harddriver . not ssd ,nve ..when i upgrade 14.2 to 14.3 . that kernel upgrade was so fast . but when i upgrade userland . that will spend 1hours ... note : don't give up. i don't know why the userland will spend 1 hours for upgrade ...
maybe this message can help some body.
 
fff2024g said:
i have 10TB zfs harddriver . not ssd ,nve ..when i upgrade 14.2 to 14.3 . that kernel upgrade was so fast . but when i upgrade userland . that will spend 1hours ... note : don't give up. i don't know why the userland will spend 1 hours for upgrade ...
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If your HDD is SMR that's normal.
 
Sunray said:
My AX200 stopped working with 14.3 :(

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Thread 'upgraded 14.2 to 14.3 on my laptop and iwlwifi stop working'

Just for context. My laptop is MSI GS65 Stealth 9SE. Not a shiny new, but still kind of a modern thing. As for wifi it runs Intel Wireless-AC-9560, which is seems to be supported by if_iwlwifi.
And it worked good enough with 14.2-RELEASE and if_iwlwifi driver, with no bluetooth, though, but this is the story for the next time.

Once I tried to upgrade to 14.3-RELEASE it reportedly claims
Code: 
The following files will be removed as part of updating to 14.3-RELEASE-p0:
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/boot/kernel/iwlwifi-9000-pu-b0-jf-b0-46.ucode.ko
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Uh.. ok. As I learned, this is kernel-dependent and probably...
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