A tablet running FreeBSD?

[grandpa]

I am glad to stand corrected here. I thought all Baytrails were affected with a problem with i915drm. What version of the i915drm driver are you using?
Maybe I drag these back out for testing. Venue11 that I quote above has Braswell and should be unaffected.

grandpa you notice this in your examination of i915drm problems with certain Baytrail/ValleyView CPU graphics?

I have a workaround for Cherryview on 14.4-RELEASE running on Braswell architecture (which is a fancy way of calling an old Asus r517sa laptop with Intel HD graphics). Cherryview is often bundled in the code together with Valleyview but I haven't specifically looked for Baytrail in the code.

The workaround is described in this thread. Basically I installed a 14.4-RELEASE and git cloned ports tree 2026Q2 to get the drm-510-kmod port, modified the Makefile to remove the restriction for >= FreeBSD 14.2 and then for the /usr/src tree I did git switch to the source for 14.3, built the drm-510-kmod, switched back the src to 14.4 and rebooted.

I am also trying to trace the root cause to as why drm-515-kmod not is working on that same Asus laptop and so far I have traced it - as SirDice pointed out to me early in the thread - to a call that goes through the linuxkpi compatibility layer in the kernel. After reading from this Forum for a while I've come to realize that SirDice always points you to the right way.

/grandpa

 

[Phishfry]

Cherryview is often bundled in the code together with Valleyview

There was a ValleyView 2 as well...

It seems these tablet chips were also in some of the Intel Phablets or 7" Upright Orientated Handheld Computing devices. Some even had cellular modem.
When you look at the specs of the Z3735 it is pretty respectable for a phone chip.
Handled differently the whole phone ecosystem could have looked different. Nokia was one of the only Windows Phone makers I can remember.
Some of these initiatives between Intel and Windows really worked and some didn't. Dell had a Windows Intel 7" Tablet with modem instead of wifi..

I would like to hear the story how they got BIOSmakers to discount the 32bit EFI-BIOS or why they used 32 bit UEFI for a 64 bit chip. I assume cost.
It could have been lock-in?