Is FreeBSD compatible wih the Intel Arc GPU's and others?

[Str4nd3r666]

Will it work? I've heard that the Intel Arc B580 has a bunch of bugs, so will it be compatible with FreeBSD?

 

[SirDice]

Depends on the Linux DRM version, as it's that driver that's being imported.

 

[T-Daemon]

See

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Post in thread 'Intel Arc GPU support?'

Apr 30, 2025

I only have a B580 and that one requires at least 6.6.
FreeBSD does have support for in -CURRENT. So far I was unable to find a definitive answer so to whether 6.6 will ever be merged to stable/14.

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[Str4nd3r666]

Depends on the Linux DRM version, as it's that driver that's being imported.

Sorry, but what does that mean?

 

[SirDice]

Sorry, but what does that mean?

The graphics/drm-61-kmod is a port of the DRM driver from Linux 6.1, graphics/drm-66-kmod => Linux 6.6, graphics/drm-510-kmod => Linux 5.10, etc.

If you can figure out which Linux kernel version supports your Intel Arc video card, you can figure out which version of the DRM driver you would need.

 

[larshenrikoern]

There might be other open bugs like:
https://github.com/freebsd/drm-kmod/issues/315
https://github.com/freebsd/drm-kmod/issues/319