Drivers for AMD Radeon 880M

[psarapkin]

Hi Everybody.

I wanted to try FreeBSD and for that purpose I bought a new laptop with Radeon 880M, and found out that there is no video driver for it.
So, I want to understand how long it takes when the new hardware gets new drivers in FreeBSD?

 

[T-Daemon]

... laptop with Radeon 880M ...
So, I want to understand how long it takes when the new hardware gets new drivers in FreeBSD?

Greetings. Support for AMD Radeon 880M has already landed in 16.0-CURRENT but not in the 15.1 branch (stable/15, releng/15.1).

drm-kmod graphics/drm-612-kmod is required (not supported on 15.0, no kernel support) .


https://github.com/freebsd/drm-kmod/issues/408 .

https://github.com/freebsd/drm-kmod/issues/436 .

https://reviews.freebsd.org/D56971 .

https://cgit.freebsd.org/src/commit/?id=988c03980452a56fb0fbb15e18b0a644602d0ab3 .

The above commit from 2026-05-14 says "MFC after: 3 days" but it wasn't Merged From Current to 15-STABLE and ultimativally to the release candidate 15.1-RC1 at the time of this post. Perhaps it was forgotten.

If it is merged into 15-STABLE it would be available in the upcoming 15.1-RELEASE.

 

[fahrenheit]

psarapkin in addition to what T-Daemon said which covers the drm side (i.e. software) you may need a newer version of gpu-firmware-amd-kmod that includes required firmware.

 

[psarapkin]

Thank you for answering.
Here is several observations.

I already tried to install FreeBSD on my machine. Of course I tried some 16-th version.
If I remember correctly, the drm-612-kmod was not appropriate, so I installed another version (may be 642, but I can be wrong). My issue was after installing some kmod version I got an error after reboot, so I had to turn off auto load drm driver.