Re: Recommended upgrade procedure to avoid drm-kmod panic on 15.1-RELEASE

On 6/16/26 16:21, Takashi Shimizu wrote:
> 
> On 6/17/26 7:08 AM, vermaden wrote:
>> As FreeBSD project treats 15.0 and 15.1 the same the solution is to
>> use GhostBSD as 'backend' for your FreeBSD desktop because
>> GhostBSD ALWAYS builds its packages - including kernel related
>> ones against the FreeBSD version they use - no no such problems.
>>
>> I mean - install default MATE GhostBSD and then setup your
>> FreeBSD desktop any way you want with dwm or Openbox or KDE.
>>
>> You can also use GhostBSD repos on FreeBSD but its risky:
>> - https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2025/02/13/ghostbsd-pkg-repository-
>> on-freebsd/
>>
>> FreeBSD - to not build separate packages for 15.0 and 15.1 and 15.2
>> introduced additional 'FreeBSD-ports-kmods' pkg(8)repository - where
>> all kernel related (about 60+ of them) packages are rebuilt against
>> proper 15.1 or 15.0 version - but if someone forgets to update them
>> along with kernel upgrade - sometimes kernel panic as in Your case
>> happens.
>>
>> Hope that helps.
>>
>> Regards,
>> vermaden
> Thank you for the quick and informative response.
> 
> I was not aware of the FreeBSD-ports-kmods repository. I will read your
> article carefully and start using it.
> 
> I strongly hope that /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/kmods.conf will be
> configured by default in future FreeBSD releases. Without documentation
> or default configuration, most desktop users will never know this
> repository exists — and will continue to encounter the same panic I
> experienced.
> 
> I write articles in Japanese introducing FreeBSD to general audiences. I
> will share this information as widely as possible, including the
> existence of the FreeBSD-ports-kmods repository and the workaround
> procedure.
> 
> Thank you again for your help.
> 
> Best regards
> 
> Takashi Shimizu
> 
> 
> 

https://people.freebsd.org/~dbaio/pkg-master-report.html indicates
that the most recent kmods_* updates are from 2026-May-21 (and 20).


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