Re: Ars Technica article
Niclas Zeising <[email protected]>
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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 _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-x11 To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"