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

On 6/17/26 02:40, Mark Millard wrote:
>> https://people.freebsd.org/~dbaio/pkg-master-report.html indicates
>> that the most recent kmods_* updates are from 2026-May-21 (and 20).
>>
>>
   The  situation  that  the  KMOD  repositor is being upgraded asyncronusly  from  the  base  and  the  ports
  repositories is responsible for many support calls on the freebsd forums  and other  community platforms  such as  discord.

    Typical  scenario  :

     Nvidia  releases   updated  driver.   which  updates    the  ports  repository.
     Old  version  Nvidia KMOD  persists  in KMOD  repo  for  weeks,  months......
     This  means a binary update is not  possible.
      
     Only  solution  is to  build  driver+Kmod  packages  locally  using  the  /usr/ports  and make install  on your  own  computer.

     similar situations  with  AMDGPU and intel915  GPU  and associated DRM   version.

     the  KMOD part of a GPU card driver update is so often lagging in availability time  that it has
     become one of the major issues   with  installing a graphical desktop environment.

   
   *_When a PORT package is updated that requier its corresponding KMOD to 
be updated this has to happend in sync. _*
      this should be an administrative issue that is solvable with proper action plan for updating the  repos.
      

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Lars Tunkrans
Oracle SPARC/Solaris System Administrator
Fujitsu M12 SPARC Specilaist