drm-kmod kills FreeBSD

[Robert Huff]

Chris Hill <chris at monochrome.org> writes:

>   > You need to build and reinstall drm-kmod-g20190710 and
>   > drm-fbsd12.0-kmod-4.16.g20201016 manually from ports, so module
>   > gets 12.2 stuff in it, pkg installs binary that is built on 12.1
>   > and will not work on 12.2 properly. This is a known issue and
>   > fix :-)
>   
>   Really! That's extremely helpful to know. Do I actually need both
>   of those? I'm not sure what the difference is.

	Short version:
	To do what they do, drm-kmods and gpu-firmware-kmod burrow _deep_
into the kernel; everything needs to be _perfectly_ in sync or
... <hairball!>  On my systems I upgrade as a triplet:
{kernel+world,drm,gpu-firmware}. 


			Respectfully,


				Robert Huff
				

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