Kernel panics with ancient AMD-based graphics (was: video Old NVIDIA card, new FreeBSD = failure?)

Valeri Galtsev galtsev at kicp.uchicago.edu
Sat Jun 26 14:57:03 UTC 2021



> On Jun 26, 2021, at 2:34 AM, Tomasz CEDRO <tomek at cedro.info> wrote:
> 
> I also have AMDGPU (modern strong one) and it krashes my machine sometimes.
> Because OpenCL does not work on it I falled back to simple framebuffer
> display..
> 
> Efficient and Stable Graphics is something FreeBSD needs badly nowadays to
> make it attractive desktop platform.
> 
> Sad that Sony uses FreeBSD on Playstation but shares nothing back in this
> area :-(
> 

Yes, that is the difference of BSD style or apache license and GPL. The first ones attract businesses, and they do not have share back their achievements…

Valeri

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