Re: current state of Intel support
Grzegorz Junka <[email protected]>
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On 09/05/2018 16:22, Pete Wright wrote: > > > 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 > > 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 _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-x11 To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"