From owner-freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Tue Dec 10 09:54:53 2019 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-x11@mailman.nyi.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.nyi.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 172D31D4E52 for ; Tue, 10 Dec 2019 09:54:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from zeising@freebsd.org) Received: from mail.daemonic.se (mail.daemonic.se [176.58.89.161]) (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 47XFlw5Rxjz4g5q for ; Tue, 10 Dec 2019 09:54:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from zeising@freebsd.org) Received: from cid.daemonic.se (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by mail.daemonic.se (Postfix) with ESMTP id 47XFln0PLWz3lVq; Tue, 10 Dec 2019 09:54:45 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at daemonic.se Received: from mail.daemonic.se ([127.0.0.1]) (using TLS with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256) by cid.daemonic.se (mailscanner.daemonic.se [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10587) with ESMTPS id 5XYbfQr9bvoZ; Tue, 10 Dec 2019 09:54:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: from garnet.daemonic.se (host-90-233-196-21.mobileonline.telia.com [90.233.196.21]) by mail.daemonic.se (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 47XFlm2XxCz3c7Z; Tue, 10 Dec 2019 09:54:44 +0000 (UTC) Subject: Re: [Bug 241101] i915kms working with 12.0 but not 12.1-BETA3 To: Kurt Hackenberg , freebsd-x11@freebsd.org References: <9a291163-70d3-a073-ea70-8e2d7d1a528a@panix.com> From: Niclas Zeising Message-ID: <0657bd64-171b-00bf-a067-cf3a2053485e@freebsd.org> Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2019 10:54:43 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <9a291163-70d3-a073-ea70-8e2d7d1a528a@panix.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 47XFlw5Rxjz4g5q X-Spamd-Bar: - Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org; none X-Spamd-Result: default: False [-1.98 / 15.00]; local_wl_from(0.00)[freebsd.org]; NEURAL_HAM_MEDIUM(-0.99)[-0.994,0]; ASN(0.00)[asn:36236, ipnet:176.58.89.0/24, country:US]; NEURAL_HAM_LONG(-0.98)[-0.983,0] X-BeenThere: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: X11 on FreeBSD -- maintaining and support List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2019 09:54:53 -0000 On 2019-12-09 17:15, Kurt Hackenberg wrote: > On 2019-12-08 13:55, bugzilla-noreply@freebsd.org wrote: >> https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3D241101 >> >> --- Comment #22 from Niclas Zeising --- >> (In reply to Adam Weinberger from comment #18) >> >> Hi Adam! >> We (the graphcis team) have some patches and ideas about providing a=20 >> drm kmod >> package that builds on FreeBSD 12.0 using 12.1 headers, and then would= =20 >> work on >> FreeBSD 12.1 (but not 12.0).=C2=A0 This task is not as easy as it seam= s,=20 >> though. >> >> We are also working on a more long term solution to the problem,=20 >> probably using >> a DKMS like approach, where the module is built when it is installed,=20 >> rather >> than on the ports cluster. > Is there hope that the graphics drivers will become stable, so they can= =20 > be in kernel releases? Because of licensing issues, and different paces of development between=20 FreeBSD and Linux, it is unlikely they will ever be part of the base syst= em. Regards --=20 Niclas Zeising