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Fri, 18 Apr 2025 14:09:07 GMT (envelope-from git) Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2025 14:09:07 GMT Message-Id: <202504181409.53IE97cf035593@gitrepo.freebsd.org> To: doc-committers@FreeBSD.org, dev-commits-doc-all@FreeBSD.org From: Lorenzo Salvadore Subject: git: 8493e3dbce - main - Status/2025Q1/drm-drivers.adoc: Add report List-Id: Commit messages for all branches of the doc repository List-Archive: https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/dev-commits-doc-all List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-BeenThere: dev-commits-doc-all@freebsd.org Sender: owner-dev-commits-doc-all@FreeBSD.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Git-Committer: salvadore X-Git-Repository: doc X-Git-Refname: refs/heads/main X-Git-Reftype: branch X-Git-Commit: 8493e3dbcecc725b43799abad900fa48e3809659 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated The branch main has been updated by salvadore: URL: https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/doc/commit/?id=8493e3dbcecc725b43799abad900fa48e3809659 commit 8493e3dbcecc725b43799abad900fa48e3809659 Author: Jean-Sébastien Pédron AuthorDate: 2025-04-18 14:06:15 +0000 Commit: Lorenzo Salvadore CommitDate: 2025-04-18 14:08:40 +0000 Status/2025Q1/drm-drivers.adoc: Add report Reviewed by: Chris Moerz --- .../status/report-2025-01-2025-03/drm-drivers.adoc | 36 ++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 36 insertions(+) diff --git a/website/content/en/status/report-2025-01-2025-03/drm-drivers.adoc b/website/content/en/status/report-2025-01-2025-03/drm-drivers.adoc new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..22fbcd663e --- /dev/null +++ b/website/content/en/status/report-2025-01-2025-03/drm-drivers.adoc @@ -0,0 +1,36 @@ +=== DRM drivers + +Links: + +link:https://github.com/freebsd/drm-kmod/pull/332[Update to Linux 6.7 DRM drivers] URL: https://github.com/freebsd/drm-kmod/pull/332[] + +link:https://github.com/freebsd/drm-kmod/pull/344[Update to Linux 6.8 DRM drivers] URL: https://github.com/freebsd/drm-kmod/pull/344[] + +Contact: Jean-Sébastien Pédron + +DRM drivers are **kernel drivers for integrated and discrete GPUs**. +They are maintained in the Linux kernel and we port them to FreeBSD. +As of this report, we take the AMD and Intel DRM drivers only (NVIDIA FreeBSD drivers are proprietary and provided by NVIDIA themselves). + +We usually port them one Linux version at a time. +This allows us to ship updates more often and it eases porting and debugging because we have a smaller delta compared to a bigger jump skipping several versions. + +This quarter, we **ported DRM drivers from Linux 6.7 and 6.8**. +This effort did not hit the Ports tree yet because several patches to the FreeBSD kernel (the `linuxkpi` compatibility layer specifically) are still being reviewed and improved. + +So far, the feedback was good for GPUs that were already supported by previous versions of the drivers. +For newer GPUs, especially Intel ones, panics and display corruptions were reported. +At this point, it is difficult to say if we just miss fixes from Linux that were published in a later version, or if these issues are actual bugs on FreeBSD. + +These updates target the FreeBSD 15-CURRENT development branch for now. +Once kernel patches are accepted and the DRM drivers updates merged, we will evaluate if/how we can backport the kernel patches to earlier release branches (namely 14-STABLE). + +If you want to try them, you will find instructions to build and install a kernel with the non-committed changes, the drivers and the firmwares, in the pull requests’ descriptions. + +The next steps are: + +1. Finish the polishing of kernel patches and commit them +2. Review and merge the DRM drivers updates +3. Evaluate a backport of the kernel patches to release branches to allow to use these updates on older versions of FreeBSD. + +This work is kindly sponsored by the FreeBSD Foundation as part of the Laptop and Desktop Project. + +Sponsor: The FreeBSD Foundation