Ars Technica article

[Niclas Zeising]

On 2020-04-14 02:14, Theron wrote:
> On 2020-04-13 06:34, Niclas Zeising wrote:
>> When FreeBSD 12.1 was first released, there were issues with the 
>> binary package of drm-fbsd12.0-kmod, since all packages still were 
>> built on 12.0, and a kmod built on 12.0 didn't work on 12.1.  Since 
>> then, the package build cluster has changed to build all packages for 
>> 12 on 12.1, so if you're running 12.1 the binary package should work. 
>> If you are running 12-stable you need to compile the driver though.
>> Regards
> Won't this become an issue again when 12.2 is released, seeing as 
> today's 12-stable can't use the 12.1 package?  I'm not aware of any 
> progress on this matter or any technical discussions since these:
> 
> https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=241101
> https://github.com/FreeBSDDesktop/kms-drm/issues/183
> https://reviews.freebsd.org/D23881
> 
> At very least, drm-kmod should be set NO_PACKAGE=yes before 12.2 is 
> released, since the 12.1 package becomes garbage anyway on new 
> installations or upgrades.

Yes, this will be a problem.  We are aware of the issue and hopefully we 
can come up with a solution before 12.2 is released.
Regards
-- 
Niclas Zeising