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It's not possible to use the DRM drivers in other operating systems. Or are you talking about NVidia's closed source drivers?

• sanxiyn 4y ago
  It is in fact possible. "Linux KPI is the FreeBSD effort for providing a Linux compatibility interface to make it easier to bring Linux DRM drivers to FreeBSD and for them to remain up-to-date against Linux upstream." https://www.phoronix.com/news/DRM-Next-KMOD-On-FreeBSD-11 https://www.phoronix.com/news/DRM-Next-KMOD-On-FreeBSD-11
  • biorach 4y ago
    Ah... Well FreeBSD on the Apple M1 is highly unlikely, so this is going to be a non-issue in the near term. And none of the existing DRM drivers are likely to be rewritten in Rust. In the medium term, maybe some in-kernel dependencies might end up getting rewritten in Rust, or maybe some brand-new architecture may have a greenfield development in Rust. I'm going to speculate that FreeBSD on commodity graphics hardware is safe enough for a few years, but that longer term Rust compatibility might have to be added to the Linux KPI.
    • sanxiyn 4y ago
      FreeBSD on Apple Silicon is in fact a work in progress: https://wiki.freebsd.org/AppleSilicon https://wiki.freebsd.org/AppleSilicon
      • biorach 4y ago
        Hot Damn! I wonder how they're planning on tackling the graphics driver. Maybe they'll be adding Rust support to that KPI layer sooner that I guessed.
    • anthk 4y ago
      Also, OpenBSD since 7.2 supports the m1 too.
• anthk 4y ago
  OpenBSD.
• rjsw 4y ago
  I work on porting Linux DRM drivers to NetBSD.