Re: Status of the Panfrost driver

titus <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.arm
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it somehow works on rk3999 and rk356x boards but not great. no iommu + memory fragmentation causes contigmalloc to fail and the only fix is a reboot
https://forums.FreeBSD.org/threads/how-to-run-freebsd-on-new-boards-built-on-rockchip-35xx.88430/post-707035
How to run FreeBSD on new boards built on Rockchip 35XX..
forums.freebsd.org

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1VEjfP_ESvWectlhvfc09t1e8NkSZUXKH/view?usp=sharing14.2-RELEASE with drm-subtree imported from cheribsd (https://github.com/CTSRD-CHERI/cheribsd)

> On 1 Aug 2025, at 19:52, Michał Kruszewski <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Does anyone know what is the status of the Panfrost driver?
> 
> A few years ago there was a request to add it to the source tree,  https://reviews.freebsd.org/D34370.
> However, it was closed with a very short summary "Out of tree drivers exists for panfrost so include it."
> No rationale for the decision.
> How do comitters decided whether some driver shall be merged into the source tree or not.
> 
> Does anyone use the out of tree drvier?
> What is your experience, is it stable?
> 
> Best regards,
> Michał Kruszewski
> 
> 
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