Will FreeBSD 15.1 support AMD 9070XT GPUs?

[Angband]

They are currently not supported in 15.0. Where can I check the support status for the upcoming 15.1 release?

 

[matt_k]

The 15.1 will have the drm-kmod6.12 driver, which should offer support for AMD 9070.
I'm waiting on it as well, with my 9060.

⚙ D56888 graphics/drm-612-kmod: new port

reviews.freebsd.org

 

[fahrenheit]

Angband from a DRM (Direct Rendering Manager) perspective 9070XT (the same for the 9060 XT) will be supported on 15.1 with the new drm-612-kmod (see D56888), though the existing gpu firmware package will need to be updated.

I.e for the 9070 (XT) according to the documentation you will need these firmware files:

• DCN 4.0.1
• GC 12.0.1
• VCN 5.0.0
• SDMA 7.0.1
• MP0/1 14.0.3

As the current gpu-firmware-amd-kmod does not provide all of these binaries you will have to manually build the port point to at least the 20250808_2 github tag. A newer firmware version may be needed to fix board specific issues but at least this tag should boot.

 

[Angband]

Thanks both of you!

 

[matt_k]

As the current gpu-firmware-amd-kmod does not provide all of these binaries you will have to manually build the port point to at least the 20250808_2 github tag.

Fahrenheit, do you have any tip on how to build the port to the 20250808_2 tag? Where do I start? I can see those dc, dcn, vcn, sdma subdirectories in /usr/ports/graphics/gpu-firmware-amd-kmod/. There are not yet any '*dcn_4*' for example, but I guess they'll appear as the new drm-612-kmod gets pulled whenever that happens.

How do I 'build to the 20250808_2' tag?

 

[fahrenheit]

matt_k see this post for a base: https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/...oad-with-radeon-860m-igpu.101517/#post-742231

But make sure to edit the Makefile and on GH_TAG use the tag above, then call make makesum to correct the size and checksum on the distinfo file (or just get the repository file and adjust manually).