[Bug 241101] i915kms working with 12.0 but not 12.1-BETA3

[Niclas Zeising]

On 2019-12-09 17:15, Kurt Hackenberg wrote:
> On 2019-12-08 13:55, bugzilla-noreply at freebsd.org wrote:
>> https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=241101
>>
>> --- Comment #22 from Niclas Zeising <zeising at FreeBSD.org> ---
>> (In reply to Adam Weinberger from comment #18)
>>
>> Hi Adam!
>> We (the graphcis team) have some patches and ideas about providing a 
>> drm kmod
>> package that builds on FreeBSD 12.0 using 12.1 headers, and then would 
>> work on
>> FreeBSD 12.1 (but not 12.0).  This task is not as easy as it seams, 
>> though.
>>
>> We are also working on a more long term solution to the problem, 
>> probably using
>> a DKMS like approach, where the module is built when it is installed, 
>> rather
>> than on the ports cluster.
> Is there hope that the graphics drivers will become stable, so they can 
> be in kernel releases?

Because of licensing issues, and different paces of development between 
FreeBSD and Linux, it is unlikely they will ever be part of the base system.
Regards
-- 
Niclas Zeising