graphics/drm-61-kmod – currently corresponding to Linux 6.1 DRM

Cath O'Deray

Cath O'Deray

 
mettmusik said:
Can the 6.1-branch already be used somehow?
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<https://www.freshports.org/graphics/drm-61-kmod/>

… for FreeBSD 15.0 and above.
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piizog

grahamperrin said:
I have a guess re: when 6.1 might appear in the ports tree.
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Appearance this month is much sooner than I guessed. kudos to developers. Context <https://github.com/freebsd/drm-kmod/>, if needed for your article.

Re: <https://wiki.freebsd.org/PkgBase> since the FreeBSD Project began packaging the base operating system, it's no longer necessary to build from source when updating FreeBSD-CURRENT (or STABLE).

The off-topic sub-forum, for this, partly because CURRENT (currently FreeBSD 15.0-CURRENT) is not supported by the FreeBSD Security Officer (team).

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I'm hoping the required LinuxKPI changes will get MFC'ed to stable/14. And before anyone asks, no they won't get added to 14.0-RELEASE. But if it gets MFC'ed it'll be included in 14.1-RELEASE.
 
Well, a couple days later I've failed to make progress in testing since it's not supported for 14-RELEASE. Since my main platform for FreeBSD is the laptop, I figured no problem; I'll just run 15-CURRENT on the desktop, but unfortunately the install keeps failing in all kinds of exciting ways. And although I change nothing, it's a different fail every time :D

So my real question is if it's possible that we'll see these drivers on 14, or is the kernel incompatibility a showstopping for the lifetime of 14.x? Might be an ignorant question, but outside of using them, kernel and driver stuff is beyond my IT prowess.
 
piizog said:
So my real question is if it's possible that we'll see these drivers on 14, or is the kernel incompatibility a showstopping for the lifetime of 14.x?
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The required kernel changes cannot be made to 14.0-RELEASE. They may be able to be added to stable/14 (MFC'ed), if that's the case the changes would become available in 14.1.
 
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