mfsBSD with high res

balanga · Saturday at 10:26 PM

Is it possible to buiild mfsBSD to include with a graphic driver such dms-kmod?

Phishfry · Saturday at 10:52 PM

Yes and I bake in kld_list=i915kms to rc.conf so it works oob.
I use Poudriere to generate my MFS images.

balanga · Saturday at 11:24 PM

Phishfry said:
Yes and I bake in kld_list=i915kms to rc.conf so it works oob.
I use Poudriere to generate my MFS images.

Do I need Poudriere to do that?

Can't I just have a standalone script?

Alain De Vos · Saturday at 11:44 PM

No explicit need. Sometimes just convenient.

Phishfry · Saturday at 11:56 PM

balanga said:
Can't I just have a standalone script?

Sure as long as you can install packages inside your mfsroot image.

T-Daemon · 2026-01-11T10:32:22+0000

balanga said:
Do I need Poudriere to do that?

Can't I just have a standalone script?

mfsBSD scripts include installing packages and adding configuration files to the image.

Here an example for the "i915kms" driver:

Create custom MFSBSDROOTDIR/tools/packages.sample file

Code:

drm-61-kmod
gpu-firmware-intel-kmod

This will download listed packages and install them in the "work" directory to be included in the image. If you like, additional packages can be added, see original MFSBSDROOTDIR/tools/packages.sample file for default packages.

To configure the driver so that it is loaded at system startup, create MFSBSDROOTDIR/customfiles/etc/rc.conf. While at it, set additional configuration:

Code:

hostname="example.home"
keymap="uk"
sshd_enable="YES"
kld_list="i915kms"

balanga · 2026-01-11T11:26:33+0000

I must give this a try.

Is it possible to build mfsBSD based on 15.0 yet?

T-Daemon · 2026-01-11T13:51:41+0000

balanga said:
Is it possible to build mfsBSD based on 15.0 yet?

Yes, it's possible. 15.0 support was added on Jan. 3 2026:

feat: Add FreeBSD 15 support

Call git pull in an existing local repository, or checkout into a new directory.

A test run builds 15.0 images without errors.

T-Daemon · 2026-01-12T01:12:05+0000

By the way, the images can be checked by running them in bhyve(8) to see if they boot, or all the installed packages and configurations are in their places:

Code:

mfsbsd # ls -1 mfsbsd-15.0-RELEASE-p1-amd64.i*
mfsbsd-15.0-RELEASE-p1-amd64.img
mfsbsd-15.0-RELEASE-p1-amd64.iso

# sh /usr/share/examples/bhyve/vmrun.sh -c 1 -m 1g -d mfsbsd-15.0-RELEASE-p1-amd64.img  mfsbsd
# sh /usr/share/examples/bhyve/vmrun.sh -c 1 -m 1g -i -I mfsbsd-15.0-RELEASE-p1-amd64.iso  mfsbsd

In case the image boot process gets stuck, execute from another console bhyvectl --destroy --vm=mfsbsd

If the host shell prompt still doesn't return: ps aux | grep cu, then kill(1) first "cu" PID.