current state of Intel support

[Pete Wright]

On 05/09/2018 09:15, Grzegorz Junka wrote:
>
> On 08/05/2018 08:14, Niclas Zeising wrote:
>> On 05/08/18 10:01, Zane C. B-H. wrote:
>>> I am curious, where are we at on 11 stable when it comes to support 
>>> for newer Intel chipsets? Just wondering how usable X is when it 
>>> comes to x5-Z8350 Cherry trail or the like.
>>
>> Hi!
>> I don't know the exact details, but the graphics/drm-stable-kmod and 
>> graphics/drm-next-kmod ports provides support for intel graphics (and 
>> AMD) on 11 stable and the upcoming release.  This corresponds to 
>> linux kernel 4.9 and 4.11 support, respectively. You can try either 
>> of those.
>> Regards
>
> Is 11 stable the same as 11 release? I heard one needs to recompile 
> the kernel to enable support for those ports? In other words, what 
> would someone on 11 release have to do in order to install one of the 
> linux 4.9 drivers for their amd/intel cards?


hey there - so 11.1-RELEASE is different that 11-STABLE.  this link has 
more info:

https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/current-stable.html

the tl;dr version is that we have three branches CURRENT (which is the 
bleeding edge and where new releases will eventually be cut from), 
STABLE (which is a development branch of a given release) and RELEASE 
(which is well the release branch and can be considered suitable for 
production environments).

if you are running 11-STABLE you should be able to install the 
drm-next-kmod port or pkg like this for example:
$ sudo pkg install drm-next-kmod

and things should work.  if you are keen to stay on the 11.1-RELEASE 
your best bet will be to wait until 11.2-RELEASE which i *think* will 
have the needed support in place for the drm-next-kmod to work on most 
newer intel and amd GPU's.

-pete

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