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Are the (non-Nvidia) GPU drivers still years behind mainline Linux? I might be misinterpreting the release scheme, but it seems like FreeBSD 14's drivers corres
by 0xcde4c3db 2y ago
Are the (non-Nvidia) GPU drivers still years behind mainline Linux? I might be misinterpreting the release scheme, but it seems like FreeBSD 14's drivers correspond to Linux 5.15 and FreeBSD 15's will correspond to at least Linux 6.1. Is that right? 5.15 should be new enough to have decent support for my GPU (which "worked" out of the box on Linux but didn't really stabilize until 5.12 or so).
- BSDobelix 2y agoYou can install drm-6.1: https://www.freshports.org/graphics/drm-61-kmod/ https://www.freshports.org/graphics/drm-61-kmod/ It even in the quarterly repo.
- 0xcde4c3db 2y agoThanks. I think I was somehow looking at an outdated description for drm-61-kmod that said it was only for -CURRENT, and only found mentions of the needed linuxkpi changes possibly being merged into 14-STABLE in the future. Judging by the drm-kmod git repo, it looks like they're currently working on bringing it up to 6.6.