Heads up for breaking drm update.

Michael Butler imb at protected-networks.net
Mon May 20 11:21:48 UTC 2019


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 :-(

	imb



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