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Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2017 02:48:56 -0400
From: Johannes M Dieterich <jmd@freebsd.org>
To: Jan Mikkelsen <janm@transactionware.com>
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Subject: Re: Future graphics/drm-next-kmod support on 11-STABLE?
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On Tue, 5 Sep 2017 10:05:16 +1000
Jan Mikkelsen <janm@transactionware.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Thanks for the graphics work, will try it out soon.
> 
> Does this work depend on changes in 12-CURRENT that will not be
> backported to 11-STABLE? Do you expect the port to work with
> 11-STABLE in future?
The port does depend on rather extensive changes made to the linuxkpi in
CURRENT, yes. We did discuss backporting and the current consensus
seems to be that we let things stabilize in CURRENT before doing that.

Hope this helps,

Johannes