From owner-freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Wed May 9 16:22:46 2018 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-x11@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DFAE3FC46CD for ; Wed, 9 May 2018 16:22:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pete@nomadlogic.org) Received: from vps-mail.nomadlogic.org (mail.nomadlogic.org [IPv6:2607:f2f8:a098::2]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 620106B844 for ; Wed, 9 May 2018 16:22:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pete@nomadlogic.org) Received: from [192.168.1.208] (cpe-75-82-194-8.socal.res.rr.com [75.82.194.8]) by vps-mail.nomadlogic.org (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTPSA id fdd1fcd7 TLS version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128 verify=NO; Wed, 9 May 2018 09:22:44 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: current state of Intel support To: Grzegorz Junka , freebsd-x11@freebsd.org References: <52dd5fb08cbaa1fb61f9d2f85c1a3e84@vvelox.net> <94b39f2d-1461-bab4-496e-d1cb598fe5be@daemonic.se> <69a258f8-6f41-4a2d-56dc-c7119ac81b17@gjunka.com> From: Pete Wright Message-ID: <4f23dd66-cdd2-271e-d51f-8430b20732ed@nomadlogic.org> Date: Wed, 9 May 2018 09:22:44 -0700 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.7.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <69a258f8-6f41-4a2d-56dc-c7119ac81b17@gjunka.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Language: en-US X-BeenThere: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.25 Precedence: list List-Id: X11 on FreeBSD -- maintaining and support List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 09 May 2018 16:22:47 -0000 On 05/09/2018 09:15, Grzegorz Junka wrote: > > On 08/05/2018 08:14, Niclas Zeising wrote: >> On 05/08/18 10:01, Zane C. B-H. wrote: >>> I am curious, where are we at on 11 stable when it comes to support >>> for newer Intel chipsets? Just wondering how usable X is when it >>> comes to x5-Z8350 Cherry trail or the like. >> >> Hi! >> I don't know the exact details, but the graphics/drm-stable-kmod and >> graphics/drm-next-kmod ports provides support for intel graphics (and >> AMD) on 11 stable and the upcoming release.  This corresponds to >> linux kernel 4.9 and 4.11 support, respectively. You can try either >> of those. >> Regards > > Is 11 stable the same as 11 release? I heard one needs to recompile > the kernel to enable support for those ports? In other words, what > would someone on 11 release have to do in order to install one of the > linux 4.9 drivers for their amd/intel cards? hey there - so 11.1-RELEASE is different that 11-STABLE.  this link has more info: https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/current-stable.html the tl;dr version is that we have three branches CURRENT (which is the bleeding edge and where new releases will eventually be cut from), STABLE (which is a development branch of a given release) and RELEASE (which is well the release branch and can be considered suitable for production environments). if you are running 11-STABLE you should be able to install the drm-next-kmod port or pkg like this for example: $ sudo pkg install drm-next-kmod and things should work.  if you are keen to stay on the 11.1-RELEASE your best bet will be to wait until 11.2-RELEASE which i *think* will have the needed support in place for the drm-next-kmod to work on most newer intel and amd GPU's. -pete -- Pete Wright pete@nomadlogic.org @nomadlogicLA