Re: Kernel boots failed after Sept 12 (main-n289064-0d022baa047a)

On Sun, Sep 20, 2026 at 9:08 AM Enji Cooper (yaneurabeya) <
yaneurabeya@gmail.com> wrote:

>
> > On Sep 19, 2026, at 11:50 PM, Kevin Oberman <rkoberman@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Sep 18, 2026 at 7:07 PM Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org> wrote:
> > Did i915 module and kernel abi change? You may need to uninstall i915,
> rebuild / boot kernel, and rebuild i915 / drm-kmod from scratch.
> >
> >
> > -a
> >
> > Thanks! I never considered this simple potential possibility.
> >
> > I usually don't install rebuilt kmods until the kernel is installed, so
> I can easily boot the old one if there are problems. I failed to consider
> that, in some cases, the new kernel could blow-up as soon as the kmod
> loaded and before it was ever used. Thanks so much for taking the time to
> look at this with all of the work you do on 803.11 and other stuff.
>
> I recommend using `PORTS_MODULES` in src.conf to help avoid this scenario
> in the future ;).
> HTH,
> -Enji


Good suggestion and I did this for years, but earlier this year something
broke it and it failed and was crashing the build, so I commented it out. I
suspec it was fixed months ago, so I need to delete a # from my src.conf.

I'll find out if I have a problem in a weeek or two when I next rebuild my
system and report a bug if it fails.

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