drm-kmod kills FreeBSD

Kurt Hackenberg kh at panix.com
Thu Jan 21 18:33:48 UTC 2021


On 1/20/21 10:57 PM, Robert Huff wrote:

> 	To do what they do, drm-kmods and gpu-firmware-kmod burrow _deep_
> into the kernel; everything needs to be _perfectly_ in sync or
> ... <hairball!>

They are part of the kernel, literally kernel modules. Distributing them 
as ports/packages was expedient, a quick hack. I think they should 
somehow be distributed as part of the kernel.


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