current state of Intel support

[Grzegorz Junka]

On 09/05/2018 16:22, Pete Wright wrote:
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> On 05/09/2018 09:15, Grzegorz Junka wrote:
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>> 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?
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>
> 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
>
>

Hi Pete. Thanks for the update. That would be awesome! 11.2 is imminent 
:) I could upgrade to 11 stable but I am using the same version across 
my servers and desktops and don't want to proliferate versions I have to 
support if not necessary.
Regards
GrzegorzJ