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Date:      Mon, 20 May 2019 15:07:37 +0200
From:      Niclas Zeising <zeising@freebsd.org>
To:        Michael Butler <imb@protected-networks.net>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Heads up for breaking drm update.
Message-ID:  <826197cf-e361-c360-45e3-43279eee726a@freebsd.org>
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On 2019-05-20 17:21, Michael Butler wrote:
> On 2019-05-19 23:21, Johannes Lundberg wrote:
>>
>> On 5/19/19 7:36 PM, Steve Kargl wrote:
>>> On Sun, May 19, 2019 at 02:50:54PM -0700, Johannes Lundberg wrote:
>>>> LinuxKPI in base have received a lot of updates recently for Linux 5.0,
>>>> a couple of them will break drm-current-kmod. So, as of r347973 you will
>>>> need drm-current-kmod 4.16.g20190519. Ports have been updated and new
>>>> packages should be available shortly.
>>>>
>>> If drm-current-kmod is broken, should I venture to ask
>>> about drm-stable-kmod and drm-legacy-kmod?
>>
>> That's a very good question. Maybe I should have included more
>> information regarding what's not affected. The last series of commits
>> have been to LinuxKPI in -CURRENT. As such:
>>
>> drm-kmod: Meta port, not relevant
>> drm-current-kmod: See original message
>> drm-fbsd11.2-kmod: Not affected by changes in -CURRENT
>> drm-fbsd12.0-kmod: Not affected by changes in -CURRENT
>> drm-legacy-kmod: Not affected by changes in LinuxKPI
>>
>> drm-stable-kmod does not exist anymore. Stable drm kmod ports for other
>> than -CURRENT are more or less frozen in separate branches where they
>> only receive bug fixes (drm-fbsdxxx-kmod).
>>
>> Hope that answers your questions.
> 
> It should also be noted that drm-current now has a new dependency on
> lindebugfs. It won't load without it :-(
> 

Previously, lindebugfs was part of the port, and loaded from the port. 
With this update, we simply switched to using the debugfs version that 
was imported into base.
Regards
-- 
Niclas Zeising
FreeBSD Graphics Team



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