gfx-next update: drm-4.8-rc2 tagged in drm-next

[Bob Willcox]

On Tue, Sep 20, 2016 at 02:10:23PM -0700, Matthew Macy wrote:
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>  ---- On Tue, 20 Sep 2016 12:19:43 -0700 Pete Wright <pete at nomadlogic.org> wrote ---- 
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>  > On 9/20/16 12:07 PM, Doug Kirk wrote: 
>  > > Hi Bob, 
>  > > 
>  > > To start, you'll want to build and install the kernel from the "drm-next" 
>  > > branch at https://github.com/FreeBSDDesktop/freebsd-base-graphics . 
>  > > Instructions in the FreeBSD handbook for building/installing. 
> 
> No. drm-next tracks upstream, but is not guaranteed to work at any particular point in time. Intel users should be using drm-next-4.7.

Hmm, I fear that leaves me with the same noob questions then. Where do I
start? What do I download? What do I build?

I would really like to try this on my NUC but I'm having trouble getting
started.

Bob

> 
> Pete - could you please update the wiki to that effect?
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>  > > Then, the instructions at ( 
>  > > https://github.com/FreeBSDDesktop/freebsd-base-graphics/wiki#installing-required-userland-components) 
>  > > will tell you how to get the updated X server installed. 
>  > > 
>  > > One thing to note that's not really stated anywhere is that you need to 
>  > > load the i915kms driver in rc.conf, not from the boot loader, as it's not 
>  > > ready for boot-time loading yet (last I worked with it, last month). 
>  > > Boot-time loading results in a panic. 
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> With a functional efifb I have yet to see a legitimate technical reason for loading at boot. File system operations are much slower for the loader than they are once the system has run init.
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>  >  
>  > oh interesting i'll take a look at that tonight.  on my end i've been  
>  > letting Xorg load the i915kms module: i.e. not loading it via rc.conf. 
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> -M
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